NASA now believes that a meteor was the cause of the loud “booms" heard across Houston on Saturday. They also say pieces of that meteor could still be in the area.

The space rock zoomed across the sky at 35,000 miles per hour on Saturday afternoon, according to NASA, which says it broke apart about 30 miles above the Bammel area.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos,

NASA's quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft completed its second test flight, marking the start of an expanded flight campaign aimed at reshaping the future of high-speed travel. The experimental jet, part of NASA's Quesst mission,

STS-3 was launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 22nd 1982. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off for the third shuttle test flight on March 22 in 1982 for STS-3 from Kennedy Space Center.