The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

The Perseverance rover finds a mysterious black rock on Mars, “Skull Hill,” which intrigues scientists because of its ...

The NICER telescope developed a light leak in May 2023 when several thin thermal shields were damaged and let in sunlight ...

The 2024 budget funded the Office of Communications with $76.2 million of the NASA’s nearly $25 billion. The 2026 spending plan drops that to $33.8 million of the agency’s $18.8 billion.

In addition to drilling rock core samples, the science team has been grinding its way into rocks to make sense of the ...

NASA's 2026 budget has the ... The 2026 budget allocates more than $1 billion to enable a crewed Mars mission. ... Andrea has written about NASA and the commercial space sector since 2020, ...

NASA’s mission to Mars in 2020 is a very, very big deal. After the death of Opportunity a number of months back, NASA has just one rover left on the Red Planet and Curiosity isn’t exactly a ...

Explore This SectionPerseverance HomeMission OverviewRover ComponentsMars Rock SamplesWhere is Perseverance?Ingenuity Mars HelicopterMission ...

India, Poland and Hungary are back in human spaceflight. SpaceX launched the countries’ first astronauts in more than 40 ...

In 1969, humanity made history when astronauts first walked on the Moon. But since then, progress in space exploration has slowed down significantly. That was until SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, began ...