Dangling from each one is a scientific payload that can be as large as a truck; think telescopes, cosmic ray detectors or ...

What my students have enjoyed most about GLOBE is meeting some of the scientists that are involved with the program. Another highlight for them is gathering the cloud data because it involves NASA ...

NASA announced Tuesday that it is exploring two options to move forward with its mission to return samples from Mars at a ...

As part of its Artemis campaign, NASA is developing a series of increasingly complex lunar deliveries and missions to ...

The departing leadership of NASA outlined a simpler, less expensive plan to return science samples from Mars, hoping the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and the new U.S.

NASA has plans to return humans to the moon with the Artemis mission—but Elon Musk’s preference for Mars could have influence ...

The two NASA astronauts stuck in space after Boeing’s Starliner experienced issues earlier this year have been hit with a new delay. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were part of ...

Icarus has nothing on NASA. The space agency’s Parker Solar Probe survived the latest endeavor in its mission to “touch” the sun – flying just 3.8 million miles above the star’s surface ...

While descriptions varied slightly, most astronauts agreed that the scent of space is a unique mix of bitter, sweet, and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record ...

The Joliet library is one of only 10 across the country — and the only one in Illinois — to host the traveling NASA exhibit on its tour. “We’re just so proud to have this here,” said ...

“It’ll be inside the upper atmosphere of the sun, literally touching the star,” Nicki Rayl, NASA’s deputy director of heliophysics, tells Julia Jacobo and Mary Kekatos of ABC New ...