Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday as he returned to Earth from a seven-month stay at the ...

Don Petit, along with two Russian cosmonauts, touched down in Kazakhstan Saturday evening after a 220-day mission abroad the ...

The first was a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov. 1, 2023. This coming Sunday, Lucy will zip past her second target, ...

As NASA prepares to return to the moon, studying astronaut health and safety is a top priority. Scientists monitor and ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will soon swoop past a small asteroid. It will be the second asteroid encounter for Lucy, launched in ...

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

More states are lining up in a bid to host NASA’s headquarters, but the prize they seek may turn out to be smaller than they ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at potential first signs of life on another world, an FDA greenlight for ...

The Astrogeology Science Center, which has helped astronauts and robots reach other worlds safely, is facing a substantial ...

Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...

Though most of the region surrounding the rock is light-colored and dusty, Skull Hill is dark, angular, and covered in tiny ...