New NASA Earth missions gear up to start science flights

Landslides in Alaska. Air quality in Atlanta. Fire clouds out West. From the Arctic fringes to farm country, NASA's newest ...

Mars’ desolate desert landscape captured by asteroid-bound NASA spacecraft

NASA’s asteroid-hunting Psyche spacecraft recently needed a little gravitational assist from Mars to keep speeding towards ...

NASA’s nuclear Mars mission to cost over $2 billion

The price tag doesn't include the cost of the science mission the new spacecraft would ferry to the Red Planet.

NASA sent a robot named Link to save the Swift telescope, but if it fails the crash comes in October

NASA has sent an 880-lb. robotic spacecraft into low Earth orbit to try to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from a ...
University of California

Protecting NASA funding ensures breakthroughs in space science and benefits in daily life continue

NASA’s groundbreaking science missions, vital to exploring the cosmos and expanding humanity’s understanding of our place in the universe, are facing unprecedented threats. The White House has ...
Science Daily

NASA's Perseverance just completed a marathon on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by ...
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NASA has just released a jaw-dropping video of a spacecraft's view as it zoomed past Mars. You've got to see this

Views of Mars captured by NASA's Psyche mission ...

NASA makes moves to dodge costly delays on its path to build a $30 billion moon base

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA’s moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver assets to the lunar surface.
SpaceNews

NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory would be terminated in the agency's fiscal year 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan Updated 8 p.m. Eastern with AIA comment. REYKJAVÍK, Iceland — NASA ...

NASA is flying planes into wildfires to try and figure out how they make their own thunderstorms

The plan is to fly NASA’s ER-2 and WB-57 planes out of Montana to record data on the clouds’ formation. A fire whirl – or ...
Ars Technica

“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

There are more opportunities to access space than ever, thanks to a bevy of commercial rockets, some with reusable boosters, led by SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9. So why is NASA launching fewer ...

A NASA spacecraft just woke up from a nearly yearlong nap

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...