A planned space probe mission to Mars in 2022 will use artificial intelligence to help scientists prioritize their time and attention as they try to figure out if there has ever been life on the planet, researchers at NASA said Thursday.
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We may not have to go far in our search for extraterrestrial life: Researchers at NASA have uncovered new data that life may have the potential to exist in the oceans of Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Read moreThe ground rumbled in Titusville as Crew Dragon blasted off from Launchpad 39A on Cape Canaveral Saturday afternoon in the U.S. commercial space program’s first manned mission to the International Space Station.
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The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with less than 17 minutes to go in the countdown Wednesday because of thunderclouds and the risk of lightning.
Read moreThe U.S. military’s mystery space plane rocketed into orbit again Sunday, this time with an extra load of science experiments.
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Perspective can mean the world when observing a melting glacier.
Read moreEngineers at NASA announced Thursday they have developed a new and urgently needed ventilator designed specifically to treat coronavirus patients – and it took them just 37 days to do it.
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While comets have long been thought to consist mostly of a frozen water core, research released Monday finds that one comet may instead hold a larger amount of carbon monoxide, helping astronomers better understand where it may have formed.
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As NASA prepares its Artemis program to send humans back to the surface of the moon, research revealed Tuesday finds that long-duration space travel may have more dangerous effects on the body than previously realized.
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A Mercury-bound spacecraft swooped past Earth on Friday, tweaking its roundabout path to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet.
Read moreA woman who accused her ex-wife, a NASA astronaut, of accessing her bank account without permission from the International Space Station was charged with fabricating the allegations in a federal indictment unsealed Monday.
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Chemists from University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a plan to aid humans in the eventual effort to settle on Mars, according to a study released Tuesday.
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NASA said it has suspended work on building and testing the rocket and capsule for its Artemis manned mission to the Moon due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the community.
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NASA’s newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.
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Katherine Johnson, who died at 101 on Monday, was a “human computer” and one of a handful of pioneering black mathematicians who crunched the numbers NASA needed to get crewed spacecraft off the ground and into the heavens.
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A trove of NASA spacecraft data from a visit to the farthest planet-like object in the solar system – a planetesimal in an icy region beyond the orbit of Neptune – reveals how planetary building blocks form over time, astronomers said in a trio of studies released Thursday.
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Europe and NASA’s Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on a mission to capture the first pictures of the sun’s elusive poles.
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NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth safely Thursday after shattering the spaceflight record for women with a stay of almost 11 months aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories — the Spitzer Space Telescope — after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes.
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Turtles in space? Yes, really. The Soviet Union launched two tortoises in the 1960s in a space probe that orbited the moon. But the United States has prepared its own group of space-worthy “turtles,” the nickname for a class of 11 people who graduated from NASA’s astronaut program Friday.
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