The next phase of testing is set to begin for NASA's crewed Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon, the administration announced Thursday, and will serve as a foundation for travel to Mars.

Brian Hughes, a longtime Florida-based consultant, was just named as Chief of Staff for NASA. “I am excited to continue my service to the Trump Administration and the nation,” Hughes said in a statement to Florida Politics. “The mission of NASA is so vital to our future, so I’m proud to accept this new opportunity.”

Florida's Space Coast — home of NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — is the reigning rocket launch capital of the world. Last year saw a new annual record of 93 launches,

NASA continues to make steady progress preparing the spacecraft that will carry astronauts toward the Moon to rendezvous with their lunar lander and bring them back to Earth on Artemis III.

A group of six high school students from the Central Florida Aerospace Academy is heading for the stratosphere— literally.

It's Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, the time of year when dust clouds carried from African's massive Sahara Desert are carried by the wind westward across the Atlantic to affect the United States. Satellite photos showed thick dust extending off the coast of Africa on Wednesday morning, with a second swath of lighter dust over the Caribbean.

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But in a shocking turn of events, NASA detected 26 new microbe species in the very rooms used to prep the Phoenix Mars lander. Findings regarding this detection have been published in the journal Microbiome.