NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, which flew on Mars in April 2021, became the first aircraft to achieve powered, controlled flight on a planet other than Earth.

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence in the Trump administration.

In April, four astronauts will venture around the moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on NASA's path to establishing ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

In a significant leap for lunar exploration, NASA has partnered with Firefly Aerospace to send six experiments to the Moon's ...

A NASA X-ray imager is heading to the Moon as part of NASA's Artemis campaign, where it will capture the first global images of the magnetic field that shields Earth from solar radiation.

If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission, such as aboard the International Space Station, the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule within a matter of hours. If it happened on the Moon, ...

Effective vision is required for a range of duties on the Moon, including moving around the surface and gathering samples.

Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, the NewSpace superstar set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners ...

As new missions to the final frontier notched many successes this year, it marked the start of an era where small, commercial space companies can thrive—even getting help from Prada.

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...