NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app. An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the ...

The mystery behind a "strange noise" that a NASA astronaut heard coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft while aboard the International Space Station has been solved, the space agency said Monday.

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election A giant solar sail recently unfurled by Nasa has been ...

After an exhaustive review of suspect transistors in NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, NASA managers have cleared the probe for launch next month as planned on a $5.2 billion mission to find out ...

And yet, while public opinion of Boeing may be dropping fast, NASA has stood by the company and repeatedly expressed its confidence in the spacecraft and its commitment to the relationship.

NASA on Friday said it would be sending two astronauts on the next SpaceX mission to the International Space Station instead of the planned four so that two who remain stranded there can return in ...

Rocky debris caused by a NASA mission could create the first human-made meteor shower. In Sept. 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroids Redirect Test (DART) intentionally collided with a tiny moonlet ...

Radian's model differs from multi-stage rockets and could be a cheap alternative to space travel. One company is reviving a decades-old NASA idea to build a reusable space plane that could shuttle ...

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While the commercial Polaris Dawn crew geared up for the first non-government spacewalk, a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off on a more traditional spaceflight Wednesday ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, researchers at George Mason University are heading a project to construct and eventually launch a small satellite into space. Once in orbit, the ...

Marking the latest foray into space exploration, NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to explore Jupiter's moon, Europa, to determine if it harbors conditions suitable to support life.