Growing plants in space, once a distant dream, is now vital for long-duration missions. Astronauts have successfully ...

The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) satellite, a joint Earth observation mission, is scheduled to launch on July ...

The next satellites SpaceX helps to deliver to orbit from Vandenberg won't be its own, but rather two of NASA's on a ...

NASA also extended the planetary science missions for the New Horizons, which flew past Pluto in 2015. This is the second time NASA has extended the New Horizons mission.

The Planetary Society, a nonprofit advocacy group for space science, estimates that 41 current or planned missions, roughly a third of NASA’s portfolio, would be terminated if the Trump budget ...

On Nov. 14, 2023, the PACE spacecraft was finally transported from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bringing the project into its home stretch.

Explorers is NASA's longest-running program and aims to provide regular opportunities for launch of space science missions. The first mission dates back to Explorer 1 in 1958, which discovered the ...

A total of 41 science projects would get the ax under the proposal, which would be NASA's biggest single-year cut in the agency's history, according to the Planetary Society. Many of the science ...

In some cases, it's a matter of priorities. NASA's Planetary Science Division, for example, has let funding for research and analysis activities fall below 10 percent of its budget.

The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts ...

NASA should evaluate the future prospects for commercial delivery systems within other mission programs and consider extending approaches and lessons learned from CLPS to other destinations, e.g ...

— NASA (@NASA) June 2, 2021 “I jumped up and down more than I have in quite a few years,” says Martha Gilmore, a planetary geologist at Wesleyan University, who is part of both mission teams.