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NASA Delays Mission To Send Humans Back To Moon: 'Technically Challenging'

NASA announced updates to its Artemis Moon missions, which will delay the Artemis II crewed flight to April 2026 and Artemis III to 2027.

Trump Names Billionaire Private Astronaut As Next NASA Chief

US fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman (EV1) peeks out to space from a hatch structure called "Skywalker," during the first private spacewalk performed by the crew of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission

US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, the online payments billionaire and the first private astronaut to ever perform a spacewalk, as the next head of NASA. The nod could spark questions about potential conflicts of interest, given Isaacman's extensive financial ties to Elon Musk, who is set to co-chair a government efficiency commission and is one of Trump's closest advisors.

NASA's Voyager 1 Probe Sending Data Again Nearly 50 Years After Launch

The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is 15 billion miles away from Earth. It stopped sending data but NASA managed to get it restarted.

NASA Radar Reveals Cold War 'City Under The Ice' In Greenland: 'We Didn't Know What It Was'

Camp Century was a U.S. military base that became buried by snow and ice after being abandoned in 1967.

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Starliner space capsule back on Earth without U.S. astronauts

Boeing's Troubled Starliner Space Capsule Is Back On Earth — Without Astronauts

Problem-plagued craft's two American astronauts are now stuck in space at least until planned arrival of SpaceX craft next year

SpaceX, Twitter and electric car maker Tesla CEO Elon Musk, arrives for a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023

NASA Awards Elon Musk's SpaceX $843M Contract To Bring ISS Out Of Orbit

SpaceX's new project, named the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle, is designed to deorbit the ISS, ensuring its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere minimizes risks to populated areas.

It will be the fourth test for the sleek mega rocket, which is vital to NASA's plans for landing astronauts on the Moon later this decade, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's hopes of eventually colonizing Mars

SpaceX Mega Rocket Starship's Next Launch On June 5

Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, is set for its next test flight on June 5, SpaceX announced on Friday.

Stars sparkle in one of the first images taken by Euclid -- but ice is clouding the space telescope's vision

NASA Prepares For Once-In-A-Lifetime 'New Star' Phenomenon In Night Sky

The nova will appear as a bright spot between the Boötes and Hercules constellations, visible from the Northern Hemisphere.

Astronaut graduates from the United States and United Arab Emirates during a ceremony at the NASA Johnson Space Center

New NASA Astronauts Graduate, Eying Moon -- And Mars

After two years of rigorous training, ten Americans officially became astronauts on Tuesday, and are now eligible for planned NASA missions to the International Space Station, the Moon, and -- if all goes well -- to Mars.

In this photo courtesy of Intuitive Machines, Odysseus passes over the near side of the Moon

Odysseus Lunar Lander Makes Historic Moon Landing

The Odysseus lunar lander, built by the Houston-based Intuitive Machines, safely landed on the Moon on Thursday, becoming the first private company to reach the lunar surface and the first US-made spacecraft to complete the feat.

Graphic of the Odysseus Nova-C class lander by US company Intuitive Machines, part of NASA's Artemis project to bring humans back to the Moon and build a permanent base there

Commercial US Spaceship Making Attempted Moon Landing

A Houston-based company is set Thursday to land America's first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years, part of a new fleet of NASA-funded, uncrewed commercial robots meant to pave the way for astronaut missions later this decade.

NASA's thinking behind CLPS is to delegate the delivery of its lunar science hardware to the private sector, reducing costs to taxpayers as it prepares to return astronauts to the Moon under the flagship Artemis program later this decade

What To Know About The NASA-funded Commercial Moon Fleet

The year 2024 promises to be a busy one for American Moon landings, all under a new partnership between NASA and the space industry.

Readings gathered aboard NASA's specially outfitted DC-8 will help scientists determine how pollutants are spread in the air

World's Biggest Flying Lab Comes To Asia On Air Pollution Mission

NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in an ambitious mission to improve the models that help to forecast and fight air pollution.

Astrobotic began reporting technical malfunctions, starting with an inability to orient Peregrine's top-mounted solar panel towards the Sun

Bad Day In Space: Moon Mission Fails And NASA Program Delayed

A private US lunar lander mission is doomed to fail, and NASA pushes back plans to return astronauts to the Moon.

If all goes to plan, the Peregrine Lunar Lander will touch down on a mid-latitude region of the Moon on February 23

New US Lunar Lander Runs Into Technical Problem: Company

The first US lunar lander launched in more than five decades has experienced an anomaly preventing it from pointing its solar panels towards the Sun, the company that built the robot said Monday.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory team members react to high-definition cat video sent from a spaceship 19 million miles away

The Feline Frontier: NASA Sends Cat Video From Deep Space

NASA on Monday announced it had used a state-of-the-art laser communication system on a spaceship 19 million miles (31 million kilometers) away from Earth -- to send a high-definition cat video.

A SpaceX rocket carrying a NASA weather satellite blasts off in February 2015 from Cape Canaveral, Florida

NISAR: India-US Joint Mission Sees New Milestone, To Upgrade Bilateral Space Cooperation

This year, India signed the NASA-led Artemis Accords, which lays down a framework for space cooperation and lunar exploration plans among participating nations. Some experts believe this indicates New Delhi's inclination toward a Western alliance over one led by China-Russia.

The Osiris-Rex mission's capsule is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on September 24, 2023 at the Utah Test and Training Range

Major Asteroid Sample Brought To Earth In NASA First

A seven-year space voyage came to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule landed in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a small new crater on the Moon that is the probable impact point of Russia's Luna-25 probe

NASA Spots New Moon Crater, Likely Caused By Crashed Russian Probe

NASA has spotted a small new crater on the Moon that was likely caused by a Russian probe crash landing on the surface around two weeks ago.

Officials and media personnel are seen inside the Operations and Checkout Building (O&C) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida

NASA May Delay Crewed Lunar Landing Beyond Artemis 3 Mission

NASA's Artemis 3 mission, set to return humans to the Moon in 2025, might not involve a crewed landing after all, an official said Tuesday.

This NASA file image obtained August 9, 2002 shows one of the Voyager spacecraft

NASA Hears 'Heartbeat' From Voyager 2 After Inadvertant Blackout

NASA's distant Voyager 2 probe has sent a "heartbeat" signal to Earth after mission control mistakenly cut contact, the US space agency said Tuesday.

Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas will be the first to handle samples brought back from Bennu, a distant asteroid

NASA Lab Hopes To Find Life's Building Blocks In Asteroid Sample

Eager scientists and a gleaming lab awaits. Scientists will separate pieces of the rock and dust for study now, while carefully storing away the rest for future generations equipped with better technology -- a practice first started during the Apollo missions to the Moon.