NASA is overhauling how it selects and develops science missions, with changes intended to reduce costs, streamline ...

President Donald Trump is proposing the creation of a “United States Space Academy” designed to offer the same type of tuition-free, four-year degree as US military academies. But rather than ...

NASA is revising its science mission selection process under Competition Model 2.0 to reduce application requirements and ...

A gravity-defying competition that brewed in the background of geopolitics for decades is now roaring to the forefront — with China demonstrating rapid advances in space technology and the United ...

The second Artemis mission took four astronauts around the moon and back — the first crewed deep-space flight since 1972. Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an ...

After the success of Artemis II, longer space journeys are expected, raising new health and nutritional challenges for astronauts. Current space foods rely on dried, shelf-stable items. A study ...

After a successful late-August launch, the $4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is cruising to its final orbit about a million miles from Earth. If all goes well, NASA’s latest “flagship” ...

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An extinction-level event can be thought of as a sudden, external calamity wiping out a given species. For the dinosaurs, it was the Chicxulub impactor. For NASA’s science program, it very well may be ...

NASA’s STORIE mission is poised to change our understanding of space weather and its impact on technology by offering an unprecedented inside-out view of Earth’s mysterious ring current. This ...

Crew Dragon Endeavour approaching the ISS in May 2024 during Crew-8, the eighth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight. NASA The capsule is now on a roughly 36-hour orbital approach to the ...