NASA Astronaut Michael Fincke visited the Challenger Center Hawaiʻi on Tuesday to inspire sixth graders from Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School with his experiences in space. Fincke’s theme of “Going to

COLORADO SPRINGS—NASA has awarded its seventh private astronaut mission to Voyager, one of a handful of companies also vying to provide NASA’s microgravity research and astronaut flight services in low Earth orbit (LEO) after the International Space Station (ISS) is retired.

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four humans to the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In a speech at a space policy event on Tuesday, NASA chief Jared Isaacman said that the mission was an “opening act” for a new era of human space exploration and,

Astronauts captured a stunning and rare lightning event called "red sprites" from Earth orbit that could impact radio, climate, and safety.

People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, according to NASA.

Late last month Dream Chaser, a commercial U.S. space plane, received no mention during NASA’s in-depth “Ignition” briefing, which set out the agency’s comprehensive plans to return to the moon.

The first spacewalk of 2026 is scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, and will be livestreamed by NASA. Astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams will spend about 6.5 hours working outside the ISS. A previously planned spacewalk in January was canceled due to ...

Two NASA astronauts had some fun during the ISS' capture of a robotic cargo spacecraft on April 13, pretending to hold onto it from into the station.

On05, NASA launched a spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with a small communications satellite. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The launch went according to plan,

President Donald Trump has a big new ask of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The White House has ordered NASA, the Department of Energy, and the Pentagon to compete in designing nuclear reactors to be in the moon’s orbit by the end of Trump’s second term and on its surface by 2030.