NASA’s new administrator has floated a striking compromise in a long running fight over where the retired shuttle Discovery should live. Instead of uprooting the orbiter from the Smithsonian, he is ...

In April 2029, asteroid Apophis will pass Earth at a distance that sounds almost unreal on paper. About 20,000 miles away from the surface, close enou.

Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many surprises. That caricature is now collapsing. New analysis of NASA’s MESSENGER ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a bright galaxy that formed just 280 million years after the big bang, pushing observations deeper into the universe’s earliest period ...

Space food has always been an intriguing phenomenon for us with our feet firmly on Earth, and NASA has given an insight into what the astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II ...

As NASA prepares for the next phase of its Artemis program, the agency is working toward returning astronauts to the Moon and establishing a sustained scientific presence there for the first time ...

Space Shuttle Discovery on display at the Smithsonian. NASA is beginning the process of potentially relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. The federal space ...