Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

NASA Engineers thought Sally Ride would need 100 tampons for one week in space. Ride, who became the first American woman in ...

Credit: NASA / SpaceX One of the many advantages of being in space is having a front-row seat to the most anticipated cosmic events. Pettit pointed a camera toward one of the space station's ...

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NASA has mounted the most important parts of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope on the spacecraft that will take the observatory into space and to its research site. The work on the next large ...

NASA will investigate two new approaches to bring its Mars samples to Earth through a mission proposal that is less expensive and technically complicated. Either change in the mission's design ...

This image provided by NASA shows Perseverance rover capturing a portrait of its recently completed sample depot using its Mastcam-Z camera on Jan. 31, 2023. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS via AP) ...

The media briefing will begin at 1:00 p.m. EST (1800 GMT), and you'll be able to listen in online ... like NASA's Ingenuity Mars helictoper) to collect the samples from Perserverance and store ...

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For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has beamed home its first detailed update eight days after making a record-breaking approach to the sun, the agency announced. The spacecraft confirmed its systems and ...