Rocket Lab wants NASA to open up the Mars Sample Return program to commercial competition, arguing it can carry out the mission faster and cheaper than the agency's alternatives. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission. However, while Perseverance has been ...

NASA's chief center for robotic planetary exploration is conducting another round of layoffs. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California — which manages many of NASA's high-profile ...

A small but mighty piece of lab equipment, about the size of a cellphone, has arrived at the International Space Station ...

A Rocket Lab Electron lifts off May 7 carrying two NASA TROPICS cubesats. Credit: Rocket Lab webcast WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron launched a pair of NASA cubesats designed to monitor the ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies. Rocket Lab's Electron will launch Aspera, a cubesat being ...

In a brief statement, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Director Dave Gallagher announced that the organization is letting go of around 550 employees at its La Cañada Flintridge facility in ...

NASA wants to commission a Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve soil and air samples collected by the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Multiple space companies are bidding on the work. Rocket Lab has the ...

Rocket Lab successfully deploys CAPSTONE satellite to lunar transfer orbit for NASA, charting a new path to the Moon. CAPSTONE is testing a never-before-flown orbit of the Moon and is the first ...