Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace in will build a heat-shielded aeroshell for NASA's 2028 SkyFall Mars helicopter mission.

NASA announced four new contracts for commercial lunar landers for the agency’s moon plans, but dropped news that it’s toying ...

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...

Blue Origin’s long-delayed New Glenn rocket now has a high-profile payload for its debut flight: NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to ...

In February 2024, a landmark achievement marked the first U.S. moon landing in over half a century. The Odysseus lunar lander ...

Earth may be our beloved home planet, but Mars exudes main character energy.

As part of plans to establish a lunar base, the space agency may send to the moon a spare test version of the rover — as well ...

Perseverance identifies organic carbon molecules in rocks on riverbed that carried water billions of years ago ...

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Isaacman said NASA is also weighing how the human body will hold up in the moon's gravity, about one-sixth of Earth's, after ...

For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a chance to find out – ...