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The White House and NASA on Tuesday will ask the public for help finding asteroids that potentially could slam into the Earth with catastrophic consequences.

NASA and astronomers around the world have been tracking asteroids for decades now.

This image from the joint NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode mission shows the lower regions of the Sun's atmosphere, the interface region, which a new mission called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph will study in exquisite detail.

This photo provided by NASA shows Christina M. Hammock. NASA has eight new astronauts _ its first new batch in four years.

Andrew R. Morgan, M.D., 37, Major, U.S. Army, considers New Castle, Pa., home. Morgan is a graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and earned doctorate in medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.

WALLOPS ISLAND , Va. - A rocket carrying students' experiments is scheduled to be launched Thursday from the Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

School officials say the team designed a robot that they operated with a remote control to test its durability and precision on a terrain that mimicked another planet's surface.

Pasadena, CA - NuSTAR has been busy studying the most energetic phenomena in the universe.

NASA announced on June 17, 2013 the selection of the latest class of astronaut candidates, which the space agency touts will become some of the first astronauts to venture beyond low Earth orbit as well as fly as passengers on the first government funded, privately operated space craft to the International Space Station .

NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars.

NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier and other agency officials will debut a new machine for manufacturing NASA's Space Launch System and check on development progress with the heavy-lift rocket at the agency's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans Friday, June 21. NASA is inviting media ... (more)

The effects of Saharan dust on tropical cyclones is a controversial area of science.

NASA has narrowed down its search for its 2013 Astronaut Candidate Class to just eight potential candidates from an initial list of 6,100.

A tropical depression has formed off the coast of Belize and forecasters say it is expected to bring as much as five inches of rain to parts of Belize, Guatemala and northern Honduras.

The Supreme Court says states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

From now through June 21 your chances of sighting the International Space Station above Portland and other parts of Oregon are still pretty good depending on weather.

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found.

Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its satellite on June 7. Each frame in the animation is a sum of 4 images, spaced apart by about 10 minutes.

Mark Jordan has always been interested in space. The 17-year-old read science fiction books growing up, and the idea of visiting space has always interested him.

NASA and The Lego Group are partnering to inspire the next generation of aerospace engineers by offering a new design competition.