For astronauts, it’s a common occurrence. The problem is that no one knew exactly why. Now, science seems to have figured out ...

The lunar eclipse will take place on the night of Thursday, Aug. 27 and into the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 28 for ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured a solar eclipse on Mars. In this case it was the moon Phobos completing a transit of the ...

The moon and Pleiades star cluster are great star watching targets as the travel near one another in the night sky. Also, an ...

Florence Pouya is studying aerospace engineering at MIT, and is currently on a summer internship with NASA. As an adolescent, ...

[photo credit: NASA/JPL] A spacecraft headed for the Moon is spending the summer in the foothills above Pasadena, getting rattled, blasted with sound, and baked in simulated space — all before it ever ...

The last time NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invited the public inside, every ticket was gone before most people had finished their morning coffee. That was 2023. Three years, four rounds of layoffs ...

More than 20 robotic landings and a new fleet of commercial spacecraft are helping NASA turn its permanent Moon Base plans ...

Six days after a Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the lunar surface, NASA’s orbiting camera caught the aftermath.

Somewhere more than 13 billion miles from Earth, a nearly 50-year-old spacecraft is still doing its job. Voyager 2 has been ...

NASA had hoped to prevent its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from falling toward Earth and breaking apart in the atmosphere. But the spacecraft tasked with the rescue ran into problems.

The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this ...