NASA pilots recently put the X-59 supersonic aircraft through the wringer—performing roller-coaster-style climbs and descents ...

Seattle-based Interlune will build and test a payload that advances its plan to bring back lunar helium-3 for use in quantum ...

Interlune, a startup with plans to harvest helium-3 from the moon, has won a NASA contract to develop a payload to test ways ...

Electric propulsion is increasingly looking like the technology that will underlie a first attempt to walk on the Red Planet.

Artemis II proved NASA’s deep space systems are ready for the next leap. Orion survived its high-speed return with improved ...

Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically ...

A powerful tsunami seen from space is overturning what scientists thought they knew about how these waves travel.

NASA has restructured Artemis III from a lunar landing to a low-Earth-orbit systems test in late 2027 due to delays in SpaceX and Blue Origin lander development. The first crewed lunar landing is now ...

NASA's Artemis II crew gave Jimmy Fallon a live demo of what it felt like to be in space in the Orion capsule for 10 days.

NASA is funding two new space research projects at the University of Mississippi. Associate chemistry professor Ryan ...

NASA’s “Your Name in Landsat” tool allows users to type in their name and generate a visual spelling made entirely from real ...

NASA has delayed the Artemis 3 mission to late 2027 and redefined it from a lunar landing to a low Earth orbit docking test with landers from SpaceX and Blue Origin. The shift mirrors Apollo 9's Earth ...