The next year is crucial for the future of NASA and its plans to extend human activity in low-Earth orbit. For the first time in decades, the US space agency faces the not-too-distant prospect of ...

NASA and SpaceX are still targeting a Saturday launch for the Crew-9 mission, whose astronauts will head to orbit aboard a Dragon spacecraft that will bring the Starliner crew back to Earth next year.

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space. Voyager 2 launched into space on Aug.

NASA HAS big plans for the Moon. By the end of the decade, it wants to send humans back to the lunar surface. Before then, though, it intends to send probes to look for ice at its south pole. This ...

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Here’s how it works. NASA scientists have released fascinating images of an asteroid that zipped past Earth this week — revealing it to be the shape of a weird tumbling snowman. The asteroid ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, researchers at George Mason University are heading a project to construct and eventually launch a small satellite into space. Once in orbit, the ...

NASA will put the completed Janus spacecraft into long-term storage with the hopes of potentially flying them on a future mission. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — After a four-week hiatus ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is playing down concerns raised in a recent report about a long-running air leak in the Russian segment of the International Space Station, saying they have recently reduced ...

The Crew-9 Dragon went up with two empty seats for the returning astronauts. NASA and SpaceX launched a spacecraft Saturday afternoon that will head to the International Space Station and bring ...

Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's gradually shrinking electrical power supply. Traveling more than 12.8 ...

Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Scientists had ...