The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

A NASA telescope has begun its journey to explore space. The SPHEREx telescope launched from California on Tuesday. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried it from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

An astronaut has shown how you drink a cup of coffee — in space. NASA spaceman Don Pettit demonstrated the tricky task of sipping from a special mug in microgravity on the International Space ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...

And splashdown Crew 9 back on Earth. Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

But when asked by a NASA commentator why the landing was important for NASA and the U.S. space program, one of Petro's next comments stood out. "I think this administration really wants to keep ...

The agency is working with Boeing to resolve the Starliner's faulty propulsion system, which caused its debut eight-day crewed mission to stretch into a nine-month stay in space for NASA ...

Two NASA astronauts who've been on the International Space Station since last summer after their weeklong assignment turned into a nine-month saga are back on Earth. A SpaceX Dragon capsule ...

PASADENA, Calif. — After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids.

Spaceflight changes minds in ways that few can even think about. With months on board the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts on Crew-9 are poised to discuss their mission.

On Jan. 22, NASA's acting administrator Janet Petro sent out an agency-wide memo announcing the space agency is "taking steps" to comply. More changes could be coming to NASA soon. Eric Berger ...