Video shows NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this space sail is meant to propel payloads by harnessing the pressure of sunlight.

NASA is achieving new heights in technology as new, robust electronics can operate in vastly harsher planetary conditions.

NASA will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 12, at Kennedy Space Center to highlight progress toward the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight of the Artemis program, which is intended to carry astronauts around the Moon.

In an announcement on CNBC, the NASA administrator said he wants NASA to send lunar landers to the moon on a monthly basis to support the agency's long-term goals, including one day having a permanent lunar base.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches of sandy or pebbly material scientists had expected based on observations with Earth-based instruments.

Space exploration relies heavily on the interest of the public — the voters, and taxpayers, who are ultimately footing the bill. But that support and excitement can be fickle. When space missions go well, and deliver new insights, the payoff is cheering ...

Jessica Meir and Chris Williams of Expedition 74 did some preparatory work to install solar arrays.

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds, water on the ...

A revamped version of a congressional NASA authorization act moving through the U.S. Senate would add two more years of life to the International Space Station among a slew of new directives for the