Critics say the U.S. space agency is helping to revive an extravagant, fuel-guzzling mode of travel that will worsen the ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has issued a warning for a monstrous asteroid that is expected to rocket past Earth on Tuesday evening. Dubbed 2024 ON, the celestial space rock measures 950 ...

A panel of independent experts reported this week that NASA lacks funding to maintain most of its decades-old facilities, could lose its engineering prowess to the commercial space industry ...

NASA is 66 years old and feeling its age. Brilliant engineers are retiring. Others have fled to higher-paying jobs in the private space industry. The buildings are old, their maintenance deferred.

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power. When you purchase through links ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, researchers at George Mason University are heading a project to construct and eventually launch a small satellite into space. Once in orbit, the ...

And yet, while public opinion of Boeing may be dropping fast, NASA has stood by the company and repeatedly expressed its confidence in the spacecraft and its commitment to the relationship.

Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, to determine if it harbors conditions suitable to support life.

Report authors warned that NASA has, for too long, prioritized near-term missions at the cost of long-term investments in its infrastructure, workforce and technology. “The inevitable ...

NASA needs to increase investment in aging infrastructure as well as its workforce and technology development, a National Academies report concluded. Credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky WASHINGTON — A ...

Those working on supersonic flight today, including NASA, say they are not aiming to revive the excesses of the Concorde era, but to make ultra-fast commercial air service available to more of the ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Nasa has issued an alert for a stadium-sized asteroid ...