Before Perseverance was launched, NASA equipped it with nine bits: one for Martian soil, two for removing the dust-covered ...

The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an ...

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

NASA’s Opportunity rover made one of its strangest discoveries on Mars—**a vein-like object embedded in the Martian surface.

It was only supposed to last 90 days—but it survived for nearly 15 years. NASA’s Opportunity rover was one of the most ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who has been to space twice and is Trump's pick to head NASA, could be one step closer to ...

The agency said Tuesday it demonstrated the ability of the new hazard detection technology to perform a precise landing. The ...

This Food Science for Relief and Development column discusses a small food extruder developed at Purdue University and now ...

"Engineers with NASA’s Psyche mission are working to determine what caused a recent decrease in fuel pressure in the ...

From breathtaking snapshots of distant galaxies to game-changing discoveries about the universe’s expansion, the Hubble Space ...

What are the best methods to explore Valles Marineris on Mars, which is the largest canyon in the solar system? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bhavya Lal, the former acting Chief Technologist at NASA explains how nuclear power could unlock humanity’s next giant leap in space.