When NASA looks for people to send toward the Moon, the search often leads through the high desert of Northern Arizona. The latest contender, geologist and astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar, is not just passing through that landscape,

On Jan. 28, 1986, America witnessed a tragedy: the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger in the blue skies over Florida. The doomed shuttle touched us like we have never been touched before because along with the tragic loss of astronauts, a teacher was on board.

The Crew-11 astronauts will be medically evacuated today from the International Space Station and land in California. How to watch NASA's coverage.

NASA has quietly crossed a new frontier in human–machine collaboration, handing a critical piece of Mars navigation to a commercial chatbot. Instead of painstakingly plotting every twist of the Perseverance rover’s path by hand,

NASA is preparing to roll out its towering Artemis 2 moon rocket to Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 17, and we will have full coverage of the major event here. The Artemis 2 moon rocket consists of NASA's second Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft,

The rollout on Saturday, Jan. 17, of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is a crucial step signaling that NASA is in the final stretches to get its first crewed lunar mission in five decades off the ground. That mission, known as Artemis 2, will send three Americans and one Canadian on a 10-day trip around the moon.

American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International Space Station. With commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at the ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot, 80-ton rocket from Washington to Houston? One piece at ...

NASA employees are returning to work Thursday as the government reopens. The agency's employees have been advised to "report to work in accordance with their regular work schedule" after President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill Wednesday night.

NASA's Perseverance rover spotted a possible space rock on the surface of Mars. The meteorite's nickname is 'Phippsaksla.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Perseverance Mars ...