A former Nasa scientist has been sentenced to two years in prison over a £1m investment fraud case. John Burford, who now lives in Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, admitted in court in June to defrauding ...

NASA's interim administrator, Sean Duffy, said Thursday he has heard the recent talk about how some people are starting to believe that China will land humans on the Moon before NASA can return there ...

Radioisotope power systems (RPS) keep spacecraft going with nuclear batteries. Until now, RPS operated using a plutonium isotope, but researchers have found that an isotope of americium could keep ...

Just before Labor Day weekend, the White House issued an executive order that excludes NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights. NASA employees have previously expressed public dismay ...

NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and physical traits. While harmless to Earth, the comet provides scientists a rare ...

NASA’s first manned trip to the moon in over 50 years needs volunteers. The space agency announced last week that it’s crowdsourcing Earth-side support for its next mission. Artemis II, tentatively ...

Dozens of engineers will monitor the Artemis II Orion spacecraft along its journey in 2026 while collecting data from the new room inside Houston's Mission Control Center. NASA's Artemis program is ...

Blue Origin is proposing a version of its Blue Ring spacecraft to serve as a Mars communications satellite. Credit: Blue Origin WASHINGTON — NASA is still working on a strategy to procure a Mars ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...

NASA teamed up with the Minnesota Science Museum to bring fairgoers an out-of-this-world exhibit. The science museum offered numerous interactive activities to demonstrate what life is like in space, ...

Not long before he decided to leave NASA, Steve Rader, an engineer who spent 36 years at the Johnson Space Center, held a retreat for leaders in his department at his home in downtown Houston. It had ...