The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until 2040.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit shared jaw-dropping footage of an undulating green aurora as seen during a flyover from the International Space Station.
The Northern Lights are one of the most mesmerizing natural phenomena on Earth, but seeing them from space offers an entirely ...
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...
Astronomers used JWST and gravitational lensing to spot 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away.
A European service vehicle would help return the cigar-sized samples. The second option uses new commercial capabilities to ...
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars. Administrator Bill Nelson presented two options on Tuesday, less than two weeks before stepping ...
Learn more about the NASA instrument’s mission to take the first full image of Earth’s magnetic field.
In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...
Throughout January, four planets will line up in the night sky and be simultaneously visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere. Our celestial neighbours Venus and Mars as well as big ...
SpaceX on Monday launched a Falcon 9 rocket with its first Starlink mission of the new year, sending 24 satellites to ...
A NASA astronaut has released stunning footage of an aurora taken while the space station flew directly above it.