The new look at Mars' horizon, taken by the Odyssey orbiter, wasn't just for pretty pictures, but to give scientists an ...

ASTRONAUTS can lose fingernails during spacewalks due to a condition called onycholysis that separtes fingernails from their ...

An ambitious schedule is falling prey to delays in new systems under development by private contractors including SpaceX and ...

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio is set to return to Earth this fall after setting the record for the longest single spaceflight by ...

On Oct. 29, 1998, NASA astronaut John H. Glenn made history again when he returned to space aboard space shuttle Discovery’s ...

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.

NASA has a planet-sized problem on its hands. Ironically, the source of this is here on Earth: Congress, which has the penny-wise but pound-foolish policy of trickling out space agency funding ...

Here's what you need to know about the comet, known as 12P/Pons-Brooks. NASA is preparing for its next mission: flying through the atmosphere of one of Saturn's moons, with its Dragonfly ...

Frank Borman didn't give a damn about the moon. The legendary NASA astronaut, a vital member of the agency's Apollo program, said in his later years that he wasn’t in it for the grandeur of ...

In a remote area of the Sahara desert sits a 3,000-foot deep volcanic pit that looks like a ghoulish skull when viewed by space, NASA photos show. The NASA Earth Observatory said last week an ...

NASA will train an Indian astronaut for a voyage to the International Space Station as early as next year, NASA Administrator ...

NASA Capt. Victor Glover, pilot of the upcoming Artemis II space shuttle mission, returned to his beginnings Friday, Nov. 17, ...