NASA on Tuesday said it was on track to send astronauts to orbit the Moon in early 2026, as the United States races China to return to the lunar surface.

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

Recent discoveries have unveiled the surprising resilience of certain bacteria, capable of surviving the harsh vacuum of ...

The Moon is rusting — and it’s Earth’s fault. Scientists have found that oxygen particles blown from Earth to the Moon can ...

NASA unveiled its 2025 astronaut class this week, and two familiar names popped out: Anna Menon and Yuri Kubo. Both spent ...

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on ...

Like all bureaucracies in Washington, NASA could use some streamlining—but cutting critical missions runs counter to the Trump administration’s mission to make America’s place in space great again.

Midwesterners call cans of cola “pop,” in the Deep South it’s “coke” regardless of the brand, and in most other states it’s ...

For the first time, NASA’s astronaut candidate class includes someone who has already been to orbit, and is majority women, as the space agency focuses on its goals to send humans back to the Moon and ...

Graduates of UVM’s Larner College of Medicine have practiced medicine around the globe; now, one Larner alum is poised to ...

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low ...

NASA announced its newest class of astronauts Sept. 22 as agency leaders and lawmakers emphasized their intent to return ...