Luna-10 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on March 31, 1966, ripping a noisy, smoke-trailed path through the wide steppe sky ...

In the silent, freezing expanse of interstellar space, a small spacecraft launched in the era of disco and analog tape has ...

A rare radioactive isotope stands between NASA and its next generation of deep-space exploration. Plutonium-238, the fuel ...

Now, the crew of Artemis II are on NASA's first crewed mission to the moon since 1972 as the US goes head-to-head with China ...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard has endured heartbreaking losses, deep trauma, and impossible choices across "Star Trek." Here's a ...

The Pasadena lab plays a key role in data exchange and communications between four Artemis II astronauts and mission control.

We’ve sent thousands of things into space over the years! Many of them just orbit the Earth, and some are flying out past the ...

The Artemis II mission launches this week as a first step toward returning to the moon and reaching Mars. Materials scientist ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study found that protons and heavy ions react differently to solar magnetic reconnection ...

A NASA satellite’s camera captured the far side of the Moon as it passed in front of Earth. Credit: NASA/NOAA. Curiosity draws us to the cosmos, and as a planetary scientist, I ...

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, a major physics experiment has reached a critical milestone, enabling detectors to operate ...

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...