When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn's moon Titan, NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final manned space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on .The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, ...

On March 15, 2024, near the peak of the current solar cycle, the sun produced a solar flare and an accompanying coronal mass ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

Mercury is one of the least visited planets in our solar system, but NASA’s MESSENGER mission changed that in 2011. It ...

Using cutting-edge theoretical models and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... gas swirling around black holes. While its images can be breathtaking, they're typically flat snapshots ...

Johnson said NASA’s catalogue has now identified more ... (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images) Like a real-world game of Galaga, the kinetic impactor strategy works for smaller space rocks ...

Shortly after 9 AM on May 5, 1961, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the second person—and the first American—in space, rocketing to a height of 116.5 miles inside his Mercury capsule.

Despite a hiatus during the Space Shuttle's tenure, splashdowns are an iconic feature of NASA's crewed space missions ... these services since Project Mercury, the country's first crewed ...

President Donald Trump's proposed NASA budget released Friday puts crewed missions to the Moon and Mars front and center -— slashing science and climate programs as it seeks to shrink the agency ...