But NASA's oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit became a septuagenarian while hurtling toward Earth in a spacecraft to wrap up ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active-duty astronaut, celebrated his 70th birthday with two cosmonaut crewmates overnight Saturday ...

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 ...