NASA awarded new study contracts Thursday to help support life and work on the lunar surface. As part of the agency's blueprint for deep space exploration to support the Artemis campaign, nine ...

Janet Petro has been appointed as the acting administrator of NASA, the US space agency announced after President Donald ...

NASA wants to return Mars samples to Earth, but budget problems and technical woes have the mission caught between a rock and the Red Planet. There appears to be an unofficial robotic space race ...

This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA ...

Missions will study everything from water on the Moon to the transformation of our universe after the big bang and ongoing changes to Earth’s surface.

NASA JPL is readying for, clockwise from lower right, the launches of CADRE (its engineering models are seen here), Lunar Trailblazer, NISAR (seen in ...

Nelson and NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy left the agency on Monday (Jan. 20), the day that Donald Trump began his ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding ...

In what appears to be a jab at NASA, Rocket Lab this week unveiled its own plan to return rock and dust samples the space agency has been collecting from Mars’ Jezero Crater since 2021.

NASA's Mars Chopper concept, shown in a design software rendering. NASA has unveiled the successor of its highly successful Ingenuity helicopter that roamed over the surface of Mars for over three ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- To maximize chances of successfully bringing the first Martian rock and sediment samples to Earth for the benefit of humanity, NASA announced Tuesday a new ...