A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.

One of the Van Allen probes, sent to study particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field, is expected to return to Earth tonight ...

NASA has joined forces with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on a new mission to recruit engineers and ...

NASA Force is launching to place top engineers into mission-critical roles, expanding the US Tech Force program to advance space exploration and technology priorities.

Four years ago, NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. The mission aimed to test our planetary defense capabilities by ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

NASA can use space-rated actuation hardware for a wide range of applications, including in robotic arms that deploy equipment.

NASA’s Artemis restructuring removes the Artemis III lunar landing, targets two Moon missions in 2028, and reflects growing concern about China’s lunar timeline.

"We're doing more than proving a new technology," said Jason Turpin, manager of the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office at NASA Marshall. "This test series generated some of the most detailed flow ...

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NASA’s Van Allen Probe A is making its final journey toward Earth after spending nearly 14 years in orbit, studying the radiation belts that surround our planet. This mission, launched in 2012, was ...

During the next five years, NASA technology development efforts should focus on 16 high-priority technologies and their associated top technical challenges, says a new report from the National ...