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SGI , the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI UVTM 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.

Maureen Clemmons, "Aunt Mo" with her telescope in Reseda. Clemmons regularly pulls out her telescope for neighborhood kids to look at the sky with.

The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion.

Air Force pilot Scott Powell returned home three weeks early from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, surprising his children at school.

Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.

Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows.

Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician, left, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a Barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 23, 2013.

On Tuesday, May 16th, we had the privilege of touring NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

Gov. Jerry Brown Thusday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life.

Alice Eve knows aliens, or at least she does in her movies. The British actress has dealt with the topic of extra-terrestrial life quite a bit, as she's appeared in both "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Men In Black 3," which is fitting since she believes we're not alone .

The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

It is known NASA does not have everyone believing earth will perish due to global warming.

Black Hat A recipient of two of NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medals, Brian Muirhead has unique experience in solving the challenges of both robotic and human exploration of space.

Clouds are hard to spot in this natural-color image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, taken March 24, 2013.

EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission planned for launch in 2015.

I recently had the chance to speak with Aldrin, 83, as part of a promotion for his new book, Mission to Mars .

Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old.

Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct.