NASA is preparing for humanity’s first Moon base with three investigations that will hunt for underground shelters, uncover ...

NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

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NASA shut down one of Voyager 1’s science instruments to conserve dwindling power and keep the nearly 49-year-old spacecraft operating as it continues its journey through interstellar space more than ...

NASA is ramping up its lunar ambitions by awarding nearly $600 million for four commercial Moon landings planned for late 2028. Each mission will carry the same trio of science instruments to improve ...

On Wednesday, Aug. 12, as the next total solar eclipse sweeps over Greenland, Iceland and Spain, NASA-funded science teams will chase the moon's shadow with a high-altitude jet and scientific balloons ...

With the U.S. government reopened and funded through Jan. 30, Congress is back to work on deciding how much to invest in federal agencies for fiscal year (FY) 2026, including NASA. Lawmakers have ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...

Caleb Adams, Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy project manager, monitors testing alongside the test racks containing 100 spacecraft computers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. Credit: ...

This week, nearly 300 people from across the country traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Save NASA Science Day of Action. These advocates met with representatives from nearly 250 ...