In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

Imagine flying through space at speeds that defy the rules of our solar system, only for scientists to observe behaviour that ...

NASA has raised the odds that a massive asteroid, about the size of a 10-storey building, could collide with Earth's Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December 2024, initially posed a potential ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, April 21, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the CRS-32 resupply mission. Original story: SpaceX ...

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 ...

From crewed Moon flybys to Mars test flights, 2026 reshapes global space ambitions, with NASA, ISRO, SpaceX, China and Europe planning missions that signal where exploration heads next globally ahead.

For an agency shooting for the moon and onward to Mars, NASA in 2025 has been on a roller coaster ride of proposed budget ...

Update: NASA has announced that the astronauts splashed down at 05:01 p.m. EDT on March 18, 2025. The headline and main image have been changed to reflect this. NASA has announced plans to livestream ...

NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.

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