Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” ...

YW9 and 2024 PT5, will pass close to Earth on January 9, 2025. NASA confirms they are not a threat. The asteroids have been ...

Due to a delay with SpaceX's Dragon capsule, NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were meant to spend 10 days in space in June 2024, will now not return to Earth until late March 2025 at ...

Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. On Tuesday, Dec. 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got to within ... [+] just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface. NASA’s ...

Outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday he is optimistic SpaceX founder Elon Musk's relationship with President-Elect Donald Trump will help ensure NASA receives the funding needed ...

Two US astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will remain there at least until late March, NASA said Tuesday as it announced another delay in the mission to bring them home.

Two astronauts with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) received news of a new mission extension on Tuesday, delaying their return to home. As a result, Butch Wilmore and Suni ...

Months after NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter crash-landed into the dusty surface of Mars, scientists have finally figured out what went wrong. Ingenuity was the first aircraft to ever fly on ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech WASHINGTON — NASA has refined its strategy for future robotic exploration of Mars, advocating for a regular cadence of smaller missions to answer key questions in ...

Update, Dec. 18, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 17 now includes a new attack warning from Check Point researchers about an ongoing threat that is targeting Google users via Calendar ...

Astronauts are many things. They're often scientists, engineers, or pilots. And in the case of NASA astronaut Don Pettit, he's also an astrophotographer. Pettit is currently on his third stay on ...