The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

Welcome to the most ironically overdue rescue mission in human history: saving our barely decades-old galactic garbage before ...

Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch.

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on the Red Planet. The surprise shift of focus comes less than a week ...

All NASA science instruments and missions, regardless of their cost and risk profile, are selected based on their scientific merit. In other words, the science questions themselves aren’t ...

Mercury may be the closest planet to the Sun, but it's long been overshadowed in scientific exploration. With only two missions ever reaching it - most recently NASA's MESSENGER - the planet ...

The VIPER Mission: Exploring the Moon’s Icy Secrets The VIPER rover was specifically designed to hunt for water ice near the Moon’s south pole. This area is central to NASA’s Artemis program ...

NASA's SLS rocket ahead of its launch for the Artemis 1 mission on November 16, 2022. NASA/Joel Kowsky The U.S. administration is proposing a $6 billion cut to NASA’s budget for next year ...

"I appreciate the President’s continued support for NASA’s mission and look forward to working closely with the administration and Congress to ensure we continue making progress toward ...

complete with Artemis 2 mission patch key ring dongle. From the left to right: Kelvin Manning, acting director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center; Shawn Quinn, Exploration Ground Systems program ...

Exiting his Mercury capsule was a time-consuming activity ... One of its first activities in April included the distribution of mission patches to help kids feel confident when wearing their ...

Sixty-four years after the first American to fly into space sought permission to pee in his suit, a new campaign is pairing the experiences of children and astronauts.