For decades, humanity’s relationship with the Moon has been a series of brief visits — quick trips to leave footprints, snap photos, and head back home. But following the groundbreaking success of the ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts and history-making discoverers, and jetting above the c ...

So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary science missions than it did a quarter-century ago? The answer is ...

Astrolab's FLIP rover, launching from Kennedy Space Center this year, will carry NASA science and tech to the moon, all in ...

An artistic visualization of ocean currents from NASA has people mesmerized learning about our planet's underwater highways.

For decades, scientists have dismissed the idea of reactionless propulsion—the concept of generating thrust without expelling propellant—as a fantasy that defies the laws of physics. But Charles ...

NASA plans to open up competition for control over the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has historically been operated ...

On May 21, ground controllers powered down NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) instrument, bringing the data collection ...

These objects, as detailed in NASA's recent blog post, are called ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs), and the levels of brightness they give off seemingly bypass the physical boundary of how bright ...

A Falcon 9 lifts off March 11 from Vandenberg Space Force Base carrying NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 launched a pair of NASA science missions March 11 that ...

A ghostly ring of dark matter captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Galaxies, including the one we call home, are within halos of dark matter. But what exactly dark matter is remains something of a ...

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