NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...

If you thought 2025 was an exciting year for spaceflight and cosmic discovery, just wait til 2026. The past year was one filled with monumental human missions to orbit, headline-grabbing experimental ...

NASA’s infrastructure problems including $1 billion needed to revamp Kennedy Space Center could get an assist with a bill now ...

If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being ...

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA’s moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver landers, rovers, buggies and other assets to the lunar surface.

NASA announced ambitious long-range plans Tuesday to spend $20 billion over the next seven years to build a moon base near the lunar south pole featuring habitats, pressurized rovers and nuclear power ...

Even as NASA celebrated the rollout of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II over the weekend, NASA's new administrator, Jared Isaacman, made sure to put an asterisk on ...

Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit ...

People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. Amanda Laughead The Orion spacecraft (silver) and European Service Module (white) ...

Capt. Joe Engle is known as the only person to fly both the X-15 and Space Shuttle, thus being the only person to enter space ...