The other TRACERS spacecraft, imaginatively called Space Vehicle 2 (SV2), is in good health and engineers have started the ...

NASA must confront its budget pressures, reduce bureaucracy, and focus on mission-driven culture in order to achieve its goals of returning to the Moon and going to Mars, while also developing a ...

If Duffy is serious about his stated objective, then he and the president must work more effectively to integrate SpaceX and other private space startups more fully into NASA.

Coustenis noted that U.S. President Trump's budget request to Congress does not support NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

Thirteen years into its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries — and learning to do more with ...

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red ...

Scientists want to send a spacecraft to intercept the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS before it vanishes for good.

These can range from the interesting (such as the donut-shaped rock which may not be from the planet) to the silly (hello, ...

A new emphasis on Mars exploration was clear from the very beginning of the second Trump administration. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the ...

Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy's plan to put nuclear reactors on the moon is a dangerous ...

What does it take to keep a healthy robot alive and thriving on Mars for more than ten years? For the NASA Curiosity rover, it is a mix of excellent engineering, unrelenting evolution, and a healthy ...