New international award to honor excellence and innovation in scientific achievement, economic opportunity and global security grounded in space discovery ...

NASA's recently-retired SOFIA airborne observatory aircraft, the "flying telescope," also called Plant 42 home. The agency's ...

Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...

Dr John Grunsfeld, former astronaut, NASA chief scientist, and retired associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission ...

The signatories of the “Voyager Declaration” warned the space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts ...

NASA's Athena Economical Payload Integration Cost mission, or Athena EPIC, is a test launch for an innovative, scalable space ...

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The first-ever satellite to be built jointly by space agencies of India and the US, NISAR is meant to monitor Earth’s vital signs and help understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters ...

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething ...

In 1971, Utah lawmakers passed a proposal to create a “Space Port Committee.” The group of business leaders, politicians, ...

The Space Shuttle era ended with Atlantis’s final flight on July 21, 2011, closing a major chapter in space exploration. For ...

On July 19, 1985, a high school teacher named Christa McAuliffe was selected to become the first American civilian to fly to ...