The first mission to land on a moon of Mars could launch as soon as Oct. 19, carrying with it a sample collection instrument ...

In 1959, Nancy Grace Roman became the first chief of astronomy at NASA. She worked tirelessly to advocate for space telescopes to study the Universe. Her leadership and perseverance paid off with some ...

This article has been revised to reflect NASA's updated plan for PROMISE to be a hybrid of both the Perseverance and Curiosity engineering testbeds, rather than the Perseverance testbed alone. The ...

This year, June 21 marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere, the beginning of summer. At this moment in Earth's journey around the Sun, our planet is positioned so that the north pole is ...

Artemis III is the next step in NASA’s plan to bring humankind back to the Moon. In 2027, the mission will launch astronauts into orbit around Earth, where they will dock with two test versions of ...

An extinction-level event can be thought of as a sudden, external calamity wiping out a given species. For the dinosaurs, it was the Chicxulub impactor. For NASA’s science program, it very well may be ...

Only days after NASA launched astronauts to the Moon for the first time in decades, the White House’s budgeting office announced a plan to reduce NASA’s workforce by thousands and cancel over 50 NASA ...

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Apollo remains the single historical example of a successful human lunar landing program. So, despite the technological and geopolitical changes of the past half-century, there can be value in ...

The print edition of this article was published under the title "Sky wanderers to dominant orbiters" The field of planetary science isn’t often plagued by drama, but there are occasional controversies ...

This is your one-stop space exploration and astronomy calendar for 2026: from mission launches and space exploration milestones to celestial events and exciting changes in our Solar System, it’s all ...