The giant gas planet Uranus, located more than 19 times farther away from the Sun than Earth, has a previously unknown moon, bringing its orbital entourage to 29.
The Falcon 9 launch of CRS-33 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center is targeted for Aug. 24 at 2:45 a.m. EDT, carrying 5,000 lb. of supplies, equipment and research.
NASA also floated the idea that the nuclear reactor might be contracted as an “end-to-end service” from development, launch, landing to operations on the Moon.
NASA is commissioning 30-day studies to assess using emerging commercial space technology to reboost the decaying orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
The testing is part of the evaluation of the spacesuit's performance for the Artemis III mission, the first post-Apollo Moon landing with astronauts, currently planned for mid-2027.
NASA has initiated the second phase of a competition to recycle large quantities of trash during future long-duration human deep-space exploration missions.
NASA’s Crew-10 SpaceX Dragon capsule Endurance descended safely under parachute into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego on Aug. 9, successfully ending a 148-day mission to the ISS.
Readers write about how to deice blended wing bodies, the defunding of NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program and the Golden Dome missile defense initiative’s viability.
NASA sees its work on RDRE technology as one of several areas to contribute to the future Golden Dome for America architecture, an agency official says.
As the International Space Station enters its last five years, the heads of the project’s primary partners met in person for the first time in seven years
