The development of commercial space stations comes as NASA plans the end of an era. The existing International Space Station – which has been run by the space agencies in the United States, Europe, ...

With an asteroid threatening impact with the moon in 2032, NASA explores all possible avenues to avert catastrophe—even nuclear weapons.

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

NASA employees are once again taking to the streets to raise awareness about deep science cuts and layoffs at the space agency. A third "Save NASA" protest is set for Monday, Sept. 15, outside the ...

NASA has 10 new astronauts chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Six of them are women, the first time in NASA history that an incoming astronaut class is mostly female.

The PBR calls to reduce NASA’s top-line funding by nearly 25 percent—which would represent the largest single-year cut in the agency’s history—and trim its workforce by nearly one-third. That would ...

Fictional depiction of what blowing up the asteroid could look like. AI-generated image. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from low Earth orbit ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

A returned astronaut had a surprise when she gazed out of a passenger plane window and saw a rocket she had recently ridden. NASA spacewoman Anne McClain watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rise into the ...

NASA is a tangible product of the greatest expression of the American dream. Dismantling it is a travesty that no one voted for,” Colette Delawalla said.