In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched in 2025 to study Mars’ magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped away the planet’s atmosphere over time ...

Nasa has updated its assessment of asteroid 2024 YR4, revealing an increased chance of lunar impact. The space agency now calculates a 3.8 per cent probability that the asteroid will hit the Moon on ...

Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Monday, April 21, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on the CRS-32 resupply mission. Original story: SpaceX ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's flagship center for space science is under attack from within, and some of the biggest ...

NASA has raised the odds that a massive asteroid, about the size of a 10-storey building, could collide with Earth's Moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December 2024, initially posed a potential ...

NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of the Earth in 2029, reversing the Trump administration’s previous plan to ...

NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the Perseverance rover inspected named "Cheyava Falls." Credit: NASA Steelers ...

From crewed Moon flybys to Mars test flights, 2026 reshapes global space ambitions, with NASA, ISRO, SpaceX, China and Europe planning missions that signal where exploration heads next globally ahead.

NASA reported 2025 achievements in lunar, Mars, and Earth science missions, including Artemis II preparations, CLPS landers, Mars ESCAPADE, ISS research, heliophysics, and new astronaut candidates.

NASA loses contact with MAVEN, its Mars orbiter studying the planet's atmosphere, after a decade of successful operations.

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