An illustration of a private U.S. lander on the surface of the moon built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace. The ...

NASA is sending a suite of science and technology demonstrations on Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to ...

NASA's mission to return samples from Mars and potentially discover the first signs of alien life has a new timeline. The samples may arrive sooner.

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.

Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample until the 2040's, noted Nelson, who said a re-evaluation of the mission ...

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

An audit by NASA in 2011 found that at least 517 of their “astromaterial samples” were lost or stolen between 1970 and June ...

Formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the observatory was renamed in 2020 to honor Vera Rubin, who died at 88 in 2016 ...

TBD: NASA explores water on the moon. NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is set to begin orbiting the moon next month in a mission looking to enhance humanity’s understanding of lunar water resources.

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew 3.8 million miles above the sun's surface at a historic 430,000 miles per hour Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated ...

NASA said on Friday (December 27, 2024) that its Parker Solar Probe was "safe" and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object.