NASA is not immune to the effects of a government shutdown if congressional leaders fail to reach an agreement before midnight Oct. 1 to prevent one.

Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

A new study reveals that seismic activity on the Moon may threaten the stability of future long-term infrastructure. A recent study found that ground shaking caused by moonquakes, not meteorite ...

As of Wednesday, Oct. 1, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous, and according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, 65% of its surface ...

When NASA’s Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped on the moon in 1969 as the first humans, the length and extent of their extravehicular venture were mostly dictated by the ...

Amid a looming government shutdown, NASA's future hinges on whether Congress can pass a stopgap funding measure with ...

Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, we live in a dangerous world. While our soft, fleshy selves are remarkably good at absorbing kinetic energy and healing the damage that results, there are very ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly ...

Roll out the red carpet. Get your popcorn. The 17th Annual Naples International Film Festival kicks off Thursday, Oct. 23 ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.