NASA administrators are also accountable to elected officials. Administrators are appointed by the president but must be confirmed by the Senate. Congress has a great deal to say about the budget that NASA gets each year. They also must authorize major programs, like the Artemis program, which aims to return the U.S. and its partners to the moon.

SpaceX launched 21 Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Dec. 23) and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea.

NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.

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 to support a robust agenda,

The regulator issued a modified launch and reentry license that allows launching multiple flights under the vehicle’s Flight 7 configuration and mission profile.

The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.

The launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 to the International Space Station has been deferred to March 2025 to finalize a new Dragon spacecraft. The crew, training in Houston, includes representatives from NASA,

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will lend insight into what happened after the Big Bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far, and search the Milky Way for building blocks of life. NASA and SpaceX are planning to launch the SPHEREx astrophysics observatory in late February 2025.

"NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 now is targeting no earlier than late March 2025 to launch four crew members to the space station," NASA stated on X. Initially set for an eight-day mission in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, the astronauts became ...

Space missions to the moon, Mars and beyond often get the most attention, but NASA's Near Space Network does a lot of heavy lifting for humankind's reach for the stars.

With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the biggest space achievements of the year from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.

Fresh speculations and conspiracy theories have surfaced after Nasa shared a video showing Sunita Williams and other astronauts stranded in space celebrating Christmas in Santa hats and festive attire.