On Jan. 25, 2004, NASA’s Opportunity rover landed on Mars and sent its first pictures of the planet to Earth; originally planned as a 90-day mission, the rover remained operational for over 15 years, ...

In 1971, during the Apollo 15 mission, NASA astronaut David Scott carried out one of the most elegant scientific ...

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What NASA accomplished in the early 1970s is a little-known but truly impressive feat. Instead of putting rockets or robots ...

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Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

A medical emergency will force four astronauts aboard the International Space Station to return to Earth prematurely.

The answer comes from a counterintuitive result of special relativity, a field of physics which is notoriously difficult to ...

NASA’s budget is still an unfathomable mess. The government shutdown late last year once again delayed proceedings to determine the space agency’s future — but if it were up to the Trump ...

"The damage is real, but it doesn't have to be permanent." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For an agency shooting for the moon ...

NASA employees are seeking more stability in 2026 as they prepare to send humans around the moon and hope to launch a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Next year could bring two flagship ...