President Trump and congressional Democrats couldn't reach a deal ahead of a midnight deadline, prompting a partial shutdown of the U.S. government.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...
The 11th flight of the most powerful rocket ever built will stress-test the heat shield of the upper-stage Ship spacecraft, demonstrate maneuvers that will mimic the upper stage’s final approach for a ...
A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...
Bian Zhigang, vice administrator of CNSA, outlined a number of recent successes, including the Chang'e 5 and Chang'e 6 moon sample-return missions, some of the material from which has been sent to ...
Minutes after SpaceX's Sept. 28 Starlink launch lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station (VSFS), in California, the Falcon 9 rocket supporting the mission reached the upper atmosphere to create ...
NASA will put an entire 'village' on the moon by 2035, according Sean Duffy, the space agency's administrator.
WASHINGTON — Early in his first term, President Donald Trump held a modest ceremony directing NASA to return humans to the moon for the first time in 50 years. It was a goalpost set without a road map ...
US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have launched three new missions to enhance our understanding of solar wind and space weather.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams poses for an official portrait at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.Credit: NASA NASA will host a news ...
Keep your eyes on the skies this weekend. The International Space Station (ISS) will fly over the St. Louis region several times. From Thursday to Monday, there are five times ...