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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A California-based NASA contractor agreed to pay $375,000 to settle whistleblower claims that it falsely certified support equipment for a rocket launch system conformed to the agency’s specifications.
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NASA said Monday that its planet hunter satellite TESS had discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water.
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft won’t achieve its mission objective of docking with the International Space Station, NASA said Friday, dealing a blow to the agency’s plans to end U.S. dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut taxi rides.
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A NASA spacecraft recently achieved the remarkable feat of mapping the elusive winds that blow high above the surface of Mars – providing astronomers long-sought data for the first time in history, according to a new study.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, having survived its closest encounter so far with the Sun, has sent back a “spectacular trove” of data on its corona, the super-hot outer edge of its atmosphere, scientists said Wednesday.
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Spacewalking astronauts ventured out for the second week in a row Friday to repair a cosmic ray detector, this time actually cutting into the $2 billion instrument.
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The most distant world ever explored, 4 billion miles away from Earth, finally has an official name: Arrokoth. It means “sky” in the language of the Native American Powhatan people, NASA said Tuesday.
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For two years a NASA aircraft scoured from the sky in search of deadly gas, but the mission was not over an alien planet: it searched for sources of methane in California.
Read moreThe world’s first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid.
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An American, a Russian and the first person from the United Arab Emirates to fly into space landed safely on Thursday after a six-hour flight from the International Space Station.
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The origin story behind a massive, newly discovered exoplanet and the small red dwarf star it orbits is difficult to explain using the standard theories on how the cosmos was formed billions of years ago, astronomers said in a study released Thursday.
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