NASA has long been highly visible and is among the most celebrated programs in modern United States history. Some generations ...

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Go faster, farther, more efficiently. That's the goal driving spacecraft propulsion engineers like Chen Cui, a new assistant ...

Hidden patterns in electric propulsion plasma beams could help ensure the success of long-term space missions.

"Even if a planet is in the habitable zone, if it has too small a water inventory, it transitions to an uninhabitable state." ...

Bezos's Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is poised to launch its first orbital rocket this week, marking a pivotal moment in the ...

By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the moon. But as space becomes ...

The space agency will provide a broadcast update on the marquee mission that is intended to recover samples of Martian rock ...

We may be about to discover the fate of the Mars samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover. On Tuesday, January 7 at 1:00 pm EST, NASA administrator Bill Nelson and associate administrator Nicky ...

In 1998, a photo taken from the International Space Station showed a black, oddly shaped object which became known as the ...

NASA to unveil new Mars Sample Return mission strategies Perseverance rover’s Mars samples key to Mars exploration Timeline pushed back to 2040 due to rising costs ...

Three launch systems and two landers from Boeing, SpaceX, and Blue Origin are all part of the complicated puzzle of NASA’s ...