"By the middle of next year, we expect to be in a position to decide on the way forward, with clarity on NASA funding and member state ambition and funding."

Because this comet is so rare, NASA is utilizing multiple spacecraft and telescopes to observe it. Since its discovery on July 1, twelve NASA missions have already taken pictures of it. More missions will also get a chance to capture it as it continues to move across space.

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.

At this rate, Starship will not be ready in time for NASA's schedule. NASA may have no choice but to postpone the launch of its next mission to land astronauts on the moon by more than a year. Growing pains for SpaceX's massive Starship rocket over the past year have stunted the timeline for the still-developing launch vehicle and spacecraft,

The long-awaited photos, snapped by multiple NASA spacecraft between September and mid-October, show a tiny, glowing orb encircled by a hazy halo of gas and dust, hurtling through space about 190 million miles from Earth at a staggering 153,000 miles per hour.

On Sunday, NASA's Escapade, a collaborative effort among the space agency, UC Berkeley and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, will launch and attempt to add two more orbiters to the elusive club of successful missions to Mars. Liftoff is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. ET.

A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening the chemical ties between the ring and its progenitor.

As part of the budget proposal for NASA submitted earlier this year, the Trump administration proposed cancelling more than 40 missions, including at least 14 Earth science missions. Agency employees have already been instructed to do the preparatory work ...

NASA warns Venus is becoming more dangerous for spacecraft. Rapid atmospheric changes and solar activity threaten future missions to the extreme planet.