Multiple bullets containing a tiny spectrometer could be shot into the lunar soil by an astronaut or rover, allowing analysis ...

The Curiosity rover captured this image on Sept. 9, 2024, during its 4,295th Martian day (called a "sol") on Mars. It's been ...

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...

After resolving a threat to the spacecraft’s circuitry, the US space agency is now weeks away from launching the orbiter.

House Speaker Mike Johnson will hold a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony inside Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol ...

NASA wants to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, but right now, astronauts have to be in direct line of sight ...

Though they may never shed the label, the women who worked for NASA as human computers during the space race are no longer ...

Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden have all planned lunar missions. Finally, NASA is preparing to send people back to the moon on the Artemis II flight, scheduled to lift off in the fall ...

SpaceX capsule splashes down in Gulf of Mexico near Florida after historic mission, carrying tech billionaire and crew.

Splashdown northwest of Key West, Florida, closed out a mission highlighted by the first non-government civilian spacewalk.

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, whose crew conducted the first spacewalk by non-government astronauts, splashed down off the ...