Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system.

Forty years ago today, disaster struck NASA’s human spaceflight program when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...

Artemis 2 is at the launch pad, but several big tests must be performed before it launches as soon as Feb. 6.

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman expressed confidence in the safety modifications for the Artemis II mission, set to launch on Feb. 6.

Getting to space is hard. In many ways, getting back is even harder. NASA soon aims to pull off the kind of re-entry it last conducted more than 50 years ago: safely returning astronauts to Earth ...

In 2022, NASA dropped an aircraft cabin (with six crash dummies) from 35 ft. The cabin was destroyed but showed the need to improve computer models. In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some ...