5518 Results From "nasa"

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.
Astronomy

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

Stranded NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have few regrets about ditching Starliner, according to a recent livestream.
Future Society

Stranded Astronaut Says He Just Wasn’t “Comfortable” Getting “Back in the Starliner” After Safety Issues

NASA has rolled out its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center yet again.
Moon

NASA Rolls Moon Rocket Out to the Pad for Lunar Mission

Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has confidentially filed for an initial public offering.
Starship

SpaceX Files for IPO

Intuitive Machine's lander toppled over inside a crater on the Moon's south pole after making its landing attempt this week.
Off-World

Lunar Lander Trips and Dies Inside South Pole Crater

The Trump administration's fumbling the lead by cutting research funding could allow China to become the world's top scientific superpower.
Science & Energy

China Is Rapidly Overtaking the United States as the World’s Scientific Superpower

OSIRIS-REx principal investigator Dante Lauretta told New Scientist that asteroid Bennu may have been "an ancient ocean world."
Off-World

Sample From Distant Asteroid Shows Signs of Originating on Ocean World

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's most important instruments had been offline for months — but it's now been brought back to full functionality. 
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Fixes Months-Long Issue With James Webb Telescope

SpaceX's all-civilian Polaris Dawn mission has taken the crew farther from our planet than any other humans since NASA's Apollo missions.
Moon

SpaceX Astronauts Now Farther From Earth Than Any Other Human Since Apollo Moon Missions

3D printing firm ICON just landed a $57.2 million contract from NASA for Project Olympus, the company's mission to create 3D-printed Moon shelters.
Moon

NASA Hires Company to 3D Print American Base on the Moon

China's Shenzhou-21 crew of astronauts is technically currently stranded on board the Tiangong without a usable spacecraft at their disposal.
Off-World

Chinese Astronauts Stranded in Space With No Return Vehicle

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a glorious image of two massive galaxies in the process of colliding with each other.
Off-World

Hubble Snaps Alarming Pic of Two Galaxies Crashing Into Each Other

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing "super-Earth" that's orbiting its red dwarf star inside the habitable zone.
Off-World

Astronomers Discover Potentially Habitable Planet

After disappointing setbacks and delays, NASA has finally got its mission to an invaluable asteroid made of precious metals back on track.
NASA

NASA Sets Launch Date for Mission to $10 Quintillion Asteroid

Samples returned by China's Chang'e 5 mission suggest the Moon could still be volcanically active today, a tantalizing finding.
Moon

Chinese Lander Finds Evidence of Active Volcanos on the Moon

After making the bold move at lashing out at his own political allies, Musk's enthusiastic support among Republicans has faltered.
Future Society

Musk’s Daring Gambit Has Managed to Do Something Remarkable: Alienate Democrats AND Republicans

President-elect Donald Trump attended his new buddy SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's rocket launch on Tuesday. It didn't go quite as planned.
Off-World

Trump Comes to Watch as Elon Musk’s Spacecraft Crashes Into the Ocean and Explodes

Astronaut Shows Photo He Shot in Space That Would Be Impossible to Take Now
Off-World

Astronaut Shows Photo He Shot in Space That Would Be Impossible to Take Now

The OMOTENASHI (Outstanding MOon exploration TEchnologies demonstrated by NAno Semi-Hard Impactor), a JAXA CubeSat that launched with Artemis I, has failed.
NASA

Lunar Lander Released by NASA’s Artemis 1 Mission Dies

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.
Black Holes

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy