Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare cache to ...

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

Discover how NASA's Artemis program is paving the way for human exploration of Mars, starting with the construction of the ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

NASA’s commercial partners mounted a vigorous defense of the Artemis moon mission plans this week amid the specter of changes ...

The joint venture between Thales and Leonardo will be tasked with building the Argonaut lunar lander for cargo delivery to the moon, it said in a press release. "This new element of the Artemis ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...