AVIRIS-5 is one of the newest tools in a joint research project from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) called GEMx. The project is designed to search for surface traces of critical minerals, ...

If you're hoping for a festive skywatching surprise, Christmas week is shaping up to be more active than usual in space. Fast ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA and SpaceX successfully launched the four-member Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station on Friday morning, after weather forced the scrub of the mission a day ...

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 ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

Across the United States, a growing number of people are convinced that the white streaks behind jets are part of a covert ...

Researchers reveal NASA vulnerability that went unfixed for three years. Security vulnerability researchers have exclusively revealed to me that a critical bug remained hidden in the software ...

A satellite launched by NASA and SpaceX from Vandenberg Space Force Base will monitor our planet’s oceans to protect coastal communities and forecast weather. Sentinel-6B lifted off aboard a SpaceX ...

Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire who personally funded and commanded SpaceX's Polaris Dawn all-civilian mission in 2024, is up for the NASA administrator job again. Credit: Jonathan Newton / The ...

A weeks-long “Game of Thrones” struggle for control of NASA is still ongoing. In one corner is Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy. In the other corner is billionaire private space traveler Jared ...

The NASA Space Weather Program studies how weather in space affects not only humans on Earth, but also how it could create challenges for astronauts and spacecraft on missions. Space weather is a term ...