Sometimes, history’s greatest inventions happen by accident - and this one began inside NASA. Engineer Lonnie Johnson wasn’t ...

Apollo 13 suffered a catastrophic oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, forcing NASA to improvise one of the greatest ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It ...

NASA's experimental X-43A didn't have a pilot and couldn't fly independently, but its blisteringly high speeds showed that hypersonic flight was possible.

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

By incorporating modeling and lunar landing data, the tool could enhance visualization and training for entry, descent, landing and managing transitions from orbit — advancing capabilities for ...

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. NASA’s VIPER lunar rover ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert ...