The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 ...

NASA scientists say a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater may contain the strongest signs yet of ...

A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain, allowed the rover to see all the way across Gale ...

NASA’s decision to cancel the VIPER rover mission has sparked backlash across the space community. Designed to map water ice ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander made history early Sunday morning as it touched down on the moon’s surface with 10 NASA payloads. At around 3:25 a.m. ET, the ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

A new study in Nature has revealed unexpected evidence that the asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it. The results come from tiny rock samples collected by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 ...

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight ...

Finding life beyond Earth would be a major scientific discovery with significant implications for all areas of science and human thought. Yet, only one direct search for extraterrestrial life has ever ...

The two Viking spacecraft both consisted of an orbiter and a lander. Viking 1 entered Mars’ orbit on June 19, 1976, and successfully landed on the surface on July 20, 1976, which was also the seventh ...