By 2015, NASA announced that Kepler had discovered its 1,000th exoplanet. 2016 was a banner year for exoplanet detections with nearly 1,500 in that year alone. The total number reached 5,000 in March ...

NASA has announced a new milestone in the hunt for planets around other star systems, known as "exoplanets". Humanity has ...

An uncrewed mission called Artemis 1 flew around the moon and back again in 2022. Four astronauts aim to do the same next ...

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

Melroy also pointed to landers as another application.

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

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

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd flyby of Mercury for the spacecraft. The music used in the video "was composed ...

Launch costs were high and minimizing mass sent to space was the main driver for mission design. To reduce mass, mission designs employed nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), in-situ resource utilization ...

Visit unique displays like lunar samples and rocket engines, and learn about pioneering animals like Miss Baker. Walking into ...

Valley Health in Winchester is piloting a program that can test the effectiveness of a new avenue in Virginia’s mental health resources landscape. Special Conservators of the Peace are armed and ...

The U.S. is at risk of ceding its lead in the new space race to China, experts told a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, September 3, raising serious doubts about NASA’s ability to return ...