As remarkable as SpaceX’s Starship rocket catch was, it represents but a single step on a long path to the Moon for NASA, and ...

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today ...

Mission operators are analyzing a small bend in one of the spacecraft's composite booms. NASA is experimenting with Invisible beams of light to transmit data to Earth, which can pack 10 to 100 ...

The advantages are numerous: by acting like a sailing ship in space ... so exciting when NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) mission was deployed to put the concept to the test.

Starship (the top half - the actual "spaceship" of the stack) flew at around 17,000 miles an hour, reaching 89 miles up in ...

AXIS (left) and PRIMA are two mission concepts NASA selected for further study as the first probe-class astrophysics mission. WASHINGTON — NASA has selected proposals for X-ray and far-infrared ...

A Space Odyssey" have made the trip into space and back on the first flight of Blue Origin's second human-rated launch ...

Credit: Rocket Lab WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded a contract to Rocket Lab to study alternative concepts for Mars Sample Return (MSR), joining several other efforts to improve the cost and ...

KU astronomy professor Elisabeth Mills' proposed space probe, PRIMA, has been chosen by NASA for funding and further investigation. A space probe concept with a KU team member has moved on to the ...

NASA's mission to advance solar sail technology through the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has shown promising signs, despite slight complications. The team is focused on collecting data to ...

NASA released this cutaway of the Mercury capsule in April 1959, very shortly after the space agency was founded. Project Mercury ran from 1959 to 1963, and it “proved that humans could live and ...