NASA announced two awards Thursday to establish scientific consortia – multi-institutional coalitions to conduct ground-based studies that help address the agency’s goals of maintaining a sustained ...

As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen -- specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That's why the US ...

It was something amazing—an expensive, delicate ship falling out of the sky with such precision that it could be caught in a waiting pair of giant, gentle arms. If you wanted an illustration of ...

Here’s how it works. NASA scientists have uncovered new evidence of a hellish, volcanic "exomoon" orbiting a superheated alien world relatively close to Earth. The proposed satellite ...

NASA is still unsure when it will next put astronauts on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which experienced issues during its first crewed test flight this summer. Starliner's next "potential ...

In a teleconference with reporters on Tuesday, representatives from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the international Solar Cycle Prediction Panel announced ...

NASA just launched a spacecraft the size of a basketball court towards Jupiter's moon Europa. Here's what will happen over the next 10 years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft lifted off Monday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, kicking off a $5.2 billion robotic mission to explore one of the most ...

Pic: NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP Up to 100 miles deep, containing twice the volume of water in all Earth's oceans, this ocean makes it a prime candidate for exploration. After a six-year, 1.8 billion ...

NASA launching spacecraft to Jupiter and one of its moons A NASA spacecraft is preparing to head for Jupiter and one of its 95 moons Europa, which is considered to be one of the most promising ...

Now, the spacecraft has successfully entered orbit and NASA confirmed they received a signal from Europa Clipper about an hour and 10 minutes after launch, which means that mission control is ...