The United States is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, riding a ...

The past year won't be remembered as one that marked a record of important space missions, but one when the foundations for ...

In 2025, NASA also consolidated its social media accounts to improve clarity, compliance, and strategic alignment. After streamlining the number of active accounts, the agency grew its total following ...

Final tests of NASA's laser beam communication technology suggests we'll soon have a new way to keep in touch with astronauts and spacecraft venturing into deep space. When you purchase through links ...

NASA is gearing up for the SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station, set to launch next month, as the ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

One may easily regard oneself as no more than a speck compared to the universe. Thirteen and eight-tenths billion years after ...

As humanity stands on the brink of a new era in space exploration, 2026 promises to be a pivotal year filled with groundbreaking missions. From crewed lunar voyages to ambitious asteroid explorations, ...

Spaceflight planners are treating 2026 as a pivot year, with six headline missions that range from NASA’s push back to the ...

NASA has awarded six companies separate contracts worth up to $65 million combined to help the agency research concepts and develop ground prototypes for deep space habitats. The six companies will ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, ...

An artist’s concept of the Moon (right) and Mars (center) against the starry expanse of space. A sliver of the Earth’s horizon can be seen in the foreground. Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA has initiated ...