NASA has quite a bit of work to do before it lands Americans back on the Moon, with the first Artemis mission, Artemis 1, scheduled to launch on September 27. Before Americans can once again step foot ...

A draft space policy paper circulating around Washington, D.C. provides some insight into what some space watchers – and NASA employees – think NASA should be doing in space – especially when it comes ...

For decades, NASA has increasingly leaned on corporate contractors to develop the spacecraft it uses to explore the solar system. Triumphs have included SpaceX’s Dragon vehicles, which can now ...

A year and a half ago, a cryptic NASA press release focused attention on what it promised would be new evidence in the hunt for life on alien worlds. NASA and the journal involved (Science) sat on the ...

A week or two ago we featured a research paper from NASA scientists that reported a tiny but measurable thrust from an electromagnetic drive mounted on a torsion balance in a vacuum chamber. This was ...

A paper posted Sunday by Nathan Myhrvold to ArXiv.org and described in an article by reporter Ken Chang in the May 23 New York Times discusses interpretations of data on asteroids from NASA’s NEOWISE ...

“NASA is a scientific and technical agency committed to a culture of openness with the media and public. While we value the free exchange of ideas, data, and information as part of scientific and ...

NASA is on the lookout for ways to fend off Earth-threatening Near-Earth Objects. The space agency has issued a call for papers May 15 that, among a range of topics, would help sort out possible ...

One of the biggest missions NASA is working on today is getting prepared for the Artemis mission that will return humans to the moon. NASA recently requested science white papers to help the agency ...

Calm down, everyone, please take your seats. Now, no one here is saying arsenic-bred life is impossible -- they're not saying that, so your science fiction novel (which should be beyond the outline ...

Flash back to December 2010. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) called a press conference. Rumors circulated that the agency was about to announce that life had been discovered ...