Update (August 3, 2018): NASA announced nine astronauts (including a former one) to crew the first four spaceship missions by Boeing and SpaceX. Read about each person here. NASA is about to name ...

The first three missions of NASA’s next-generation rocket, the Space Launch System, will all fly on the least powerful version of the vehicle that the space agency plans to build. NASA is moving ...

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover was built to last just 90 Martian sols, or 92 Earth days. But the scrappy machine shocked engineers by surviving far longer than that. The rover withstood nearly 15 years ...

Two NASA astronauts are scheduled to venture outside the International Space Station for a pair of six-and-a-half-hour spacewalks May 16 and June 14. The first spacewalk will begin about 8:10 a.m.

NASA says it is reviewing its network security processes and procedures after a computer break-in exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information about the space agency’s current and ...

As the world celebrates Earth Day 2018, NASA images put into perspective how much the Earth has changes as a result of climate change. These satellite photographs show how climate change has affected ...

The Falcon Heavy rocket launch headlined a year filled with marvelous milestones when it comes to navigating and understanding space. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

Nothing summarizes the current state of the world's fires much like NASA's snapshot of Earth's aerosols. With every breath you take you inhale millions of particulates found in the air, called ...

Organic matter has been found on Mars in soil samples taken from 3 billion-year-old mudstone in the Gale crater by the Curiosity rover, NASA announced Thursday. The rover has also detected methane in ...

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has given the thumbs-up to putting a helicopter on Mars. The Mars Helicopter, which is actually more of an autonomous drone, will be packed into the belly pan of a ...

NASA’s 23-year-old Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong, and agency officials said Jan. 8 they plan to operate it until its instruments finally give out, potentially for another six years or ...