A galaxy seen almost edge-on, wrapped in thick lanes of dust and glowing with unusually intense star formation, has long ...

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch two scientific missions aimed at improving understanding of the Sun’s energy and Earth ...

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere ...

NASA announced the partnership on June 17, 2026. Chief Jared Isaacman called it a "force multiplier" during an event at ...

NASA tapped commercial company Relativity Space to fly its next big Mars science project, which aims to help better protect ...

An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...

So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary science missions than it did a quarter-century ago? The answer is complex. It is not necessarily the money. The space agency’s science budget ...

How do you teach someone to look at the moon? Not glance at it, the way we all have on a clear night, but truly read it, the way a geologist reads a hillside. That was the challenge NASA set itself ...

NASA officials have been shouting for years more money is needed to support infrastructure of a souped-up launch rate on ...

Penn State’s strength in space science comes from the depth of our long-standing scientific leadership and the breadth of ...