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An artist’s concept of SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System (HLS) on the Moon. NASA is working...

Pictured (clockwise) from bottom left are astronauts Charles O. Hobaugh, commander; Mike Foreman, Leland Melvin, Robert L. Satcher Jr. and R...

Media are invited to learn about a unique series of flight tests happening in Virginia in partnership between NASA and GE Aerospace that ai...

Artist’s concept of a young, newly discovered planet, exposed to observation by a warped debris disk. Credit: Robert Hurt, Caltech-IPAC...

Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a “flame-throwing guitar” has now been spotted moving through sp...

llustration of BioSentinel’s spacecraft flying past the Moon.NASA/Daniel RutterEditor’s Note: This article was updated Nov. 20, 2024 shor...

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In a competition swimming pool, engineers tested prototypes for a futuristic mission concept: a swarm of underwater robots that could look f...

On Nov. 6, 2024, NASA Night brought cosmic excitement to the Toyota Center, where Johnson Space Center employees joined 16,208 fans who inte...

A NASA study using a series of supercomputer simulations reveals a potential new solution to a longstanding Martian mystery: How did Mars ge...

Technicians carefully install a piece of equipment to house Gateway’s xenon fuel tanks, part of its advanced electric propulsion system....

5 min readNASA’s Swift Reaches 20th Anniversary in Improved Pointing ModeAfter two decades in space, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Obser...

Imagine designing technology that can survive on the Moon for up to a decade, providing a continuous energy supply. NASA selected three comp...

Early conceptual renderings of cargo variants of human lunar landing systems from NASA’s providers SpaceX, left, and Blue Origin, right. The...

NASANASA astronaut Alan Bean steps off the lunar module ladder in this photo from Nov. 19, 1969, joining astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. on...

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)The thermal protection system on the outside of the space sh...

Following eight months of intense research, design, and prototyping, six university teams presented their “Inflatable Systems for Lunar Oper...

Associate Director for Mission Planning, Earth Sciences, and environmental scientist Robert J. “Bob” Swap makes a difference by putting kno...

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)Abigail Reigner, a systems engineer at NASA’s Glenn Research...

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Linda Spuler, emergency manager at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, believes that everyone has a story. “Our stories highlight what...

The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress spacecraft pictured on Feb. 7, 2023, from the International Space Station.Credit: NASANASA will provide...

When Ariel Vargas joined NASA in 2023, he knew he wanted to make an impact. Despite his relatively short tenure, he has earned the repu...

Anthocyanins protect seeds in spaceAfter exposure to space outside the International Space Station, purple-pigmented rice seeds ric...

NASA/Ben Smegelsky & Virgil CameronIn this image from Aug. 26, 2023, participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Co...