"The successful performance of our thruster in this test demonstrates real progress toward sending an American astronaut to ...

NASA has tested a lithium-fed thruster that could become a workhorse for future Mars missions, and the key milestone is not ...

NASA has successfully tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts, the most powerful electric propulsion system ever operated in the U.S. The breakthrough at JPL could pave the ...

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument.

NASA shut down Voyager 1's charged particles instrument to save dwindling power, as the interstellar spacecraft loses about 4 ...

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...

NASA is exploring ways to use a fleet of drones to explore the lunar south pole with an ambitious new MoonFall project.

NASA's Curiosity rover took this selfie at a site on Mars where it drilled a sample to search for organic molecules in ...

The cuts, proposed in the Trump administration's 2027 budget request to Congress, would pose further challenges to the ...

American space agency NASA revealed the first study based on the findings of the SPHEREx telescope, and the bottom line is ...