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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vast majority of NASA's employees could be furloughed and all but its most critical operations – including management of the International Space Station – are likely to be paused. Many NASA ...

NASA whistleblowers claim that President Donald Trump’s drastic changes to the space agency are imperiling safety to such a degree that insiders have become “very concerned that we’re going to see an ...

Of more than 18,000 workers employed at NASA, about 82.8% of them would be sent home without pay – or furloughed – during a government shutdown. Even if the government were to shut down, NASA's ...

NASA's operational stability and workforce face significant threats from potential government shutdowns, which could trigger permanent reductions in force (RIFs) as directed by an OMB memo. The FY26 ...