As America approaches its 250th anniversary of declaring independence, NASA's Artemis II mission will carry a host of mementos that reflect the nation's long tradition of exploration, innovation, and ...

What’s different about this 10-day test flight is not only that it returns astronauts to the vicinity of the moon for the ...

NASA sent the Lucy probe out to study ancient space rocks, not to rewrite the rulebook on how small worlds can assemble ...

On the other were two more figures in space suits, with the tiniest Stars and Stripes planted in the lunar soil. Cruz ...

For decades, the Moon was treated as a dead end, a place where flags and footprints marked the limits of human reach. Now ...

As 2026 unfolds, the discussion surrounding the 3I/ATLAS flyby and Jupiter’s 96th Moon represent a theoretical debate as the ...

Her baby couldn’t make it home for the holidays, but at least Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina had some out-of-this-world snapshots to keep herself warm. DellaGiustina is principal investigator for NASA’s ...

As NASA's Artemis II prepares for launch, tourists are making plans to descend upon Florida's Space Coast to witness history.

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Last week, NASA revealed that it had lost the signal from its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft, one of just seven Earthly probes currently orbiting Mars. The agency failed to ...

Parker Solar Probe reached "perihelion," the nearest point to the sun in its orbit, on Dec. 13, 2025. Credit: ASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben illustration A NASA spacecraft is making a close ...

A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the solar surface. The encounter comes one year after the historic flyby last ...