The world's first hydrogen-fueled hypersonic jet may be able to reach a simply astounding speed of 12 times the speed of ...

Newly confirmed NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman spoke to agency employees on Friday, Dec. 19 in an agencywide town hall. In ...

For most, getting into a car is a task that can be done without assistance. Yet for those whose destination is the moon, the ...

A new executive order sets an ambitious course for lunar exploration, missile defense, and commercial investment but overlooks the need for practical rules agreed to by all spacefaring countries.

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

Another member of the safety panel, Mark Sirangelo, said NASA should formally declare mishaps and close calls as soon as possible. “It allows for the investigative team to be starting to be formed a ...

Caltech is a place unlike any other, an Institute that is truly “small but mighty.” Its small size and the expertise of its ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

Satellites confirm Calanus finmarchicus, crucial for North Atlantic right whales, sustaining their survival amid dwindling ...

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...

A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...