Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist. Scientists didn't ...

In Pasadena, California, in the early summer of 1976, the engineers and scientists of NASA's Viking mission hoped to do something no one had ever done before: land a fully operational spacecraft on ...

NASA allegedly found strong evidence of life on Mars way back in July 1976. But the space agency dismissed its own data. Forty-three years later, it still hasn’t repeated the test. And now one of the ...

Last week NASA released in full its circa-1976 “NASA Graphics Standards Manual” to the public after a demand was raised by a Kickstarter campaign to release it in glorious hardback. The hefty guide ...

On September 17, 1976, NASA unveiled the first full-scale prototype Space Shuttle, the Enterprise. The first complete orbiter was originally going to be named Constitution, as it was released on ...

On Sept. 17, 1976, NASA publicly unveiled its first space shuttle, the Enterprise, in Palmdale, Calif. Development of the aircraft-like spacecraft cost almost US$10 billion and took nearly a decade to ...