NASA wants to commission a Mars Sample Return mission to retrieve soil and air samples collected by the Perseverance Rover on Mars. Multiple space companies are bidding on the work. Rocket Lab has ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission. On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's ...

Two NASA rockets launched from Alaska on March 25, 2025, lit up the night sky with strange blue lights and white vapor trails to the backdrop of the Northern Lights. The spectacular display was ...

The slow race of getting NASA's Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year's Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over the weekend. The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed ...

On March 23, 2025, technicians working at NASA's Kennedy Space Center mated together major elements of the rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 mission with the first humans to the moon in more ...

Two NASA sounding rockets launched from Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks early Tuesday morning in a mission aimed at learning more about how the aurora affects the upper atmosphere.

In theory, NASA wants to send a rocket to Mars, drop a lander down to the surface, collect Perseverance's mailbag and tuck it aboard another, smaller rocket, then shoot that rocket up to orbit ...

The Artemis II astronauts, as well as folks following the mission preparations, will be pleased to learn that NASA recently lifted the SLS rocket’s core stage into position, joining it to the ...

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket into position between the vehicle’s two solid-fueled boosters.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit created the Capillary Cup, a zero-gravity cup that floats in the air and allows him to drink without using a bag and straw, according to the Rochester Institute of ...

Isar Aerospace will try again on March 30, weather permitting. The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe is nearing its debut. Germany-based Isar Aerospace has scrubbed another ...

Weather permitting, SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, carrying four first-time astronauts on Monday, March 31. And among the astronauts ...