But Charles Buhler, a former NASA electrostatics expert, believes his team has built a gravity-defying propulsion system that does exactly that. Buhler, who helped found the Electrostatics and ...

In their first public comments since their dramatic return to Earth, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore said they were surprised by the intense focus on their mission. At a news ...

“We hear almost everything,” my friend and NASA colleague, a program scientist for the International Space Station, told me over lunch one day. She was explaining various Mission Control ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. NASA and Boeing are preparing the Starliner for its next flight after technical issues left the spacecraft unable to ferry its astronauts back to ...

NASA and private space company Firefly have released unprecedented images showing an eclipse and a sunset from the Moon. The video clips and accompanying pictures provide a fitting conclusion to ...

But in 2014, NASA’s Terra satellite captured a near-perfect circle of clouds hovering above the Pacific Ocean. Spotted a few thousand kilometers southwest of Hawaii, this unusual ring floated ...

NASA is preparing for substantial budget cuts that may force the cancellation of ongoing and upcoming missions across the solar system, leaving it facing a “brutal” future, experts have warned.

After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore finally came back down to Earth on Tuesday. Their return from the International Space Station marks a close to a trip ...

Four astronauts will have to wait a bit longer for their journey to the International Space Station. Mission controllers called off a planned launch Wednesday because of an issue with one of the ...

Those are words that NASA has been resisting for months. It made for an awkward situation in a post-splashdown press conference, when NASA administrators insisted they could have brought Butch ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

"To optimize our workforce, and in compliance with an Executive Order, NASA is beginning its phased approach to a reduction in force, known as a RIF." NASA will close several offices and reduce ...