As a writer for the NASA Web site’s students’ and educators’ pages, Heather Smith has written quite a few stories about students and teachers flying experiments on NASA’s reduced-gravity aircraft. Now ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations ...

NIRCam highlights the stars within both galaxies and reveals the connection between them: a transparent, white bridge of stars and gas pulled from both galaxies during their passage. MIRI data, ...

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The Artemis 2 mission to the moon beamed back some incredible photos, and we've rounded up the best ones.

On Wednesday, four astronauts are scheduled to launch on a trip around the moon — the first such mission in more than 50 years. Images show NASA's long road to this point. For the first time in more ...

The botched test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — a protracted saga that kept two astronauts in space months longer than expected — was a debacle in league with US space shuttle disasters ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is continuing its critical mission to explore the Martian surface, with its recent study of dormant megaripples providing exciting new insights into the Red Planet’s ...