Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

All things that go up must eventually come down. NASA says that its Van Allen Probe A satellite has fallen precipitously back to Earth after a 14-year journey through space. The probe reentered the ...

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...

An old NASA science satellite is no more. The U.S. Space Force says the Van Allen Probe A plunged uncontrolled from orbit on Wednesday, reentering over the Pacific west of the Galapagos Islands.

Images captured in late 2022 by the DART spacecraft — an experiment that tested asteroid-deflection technology — moments before it deliberately struck the asteroid moon Dimorp ...

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft possibly surviving re-entry.

Yes, my wallpaper is from Antarctica. No, I haven't been ...

As NASA tries to get the Artemis II mission off the ground, with its crew of four astronauts, for a flight around the moon, it is struggling with the albatross of the Space Launch System. The first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Grounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the hangar this week for more repairs before astronauts climb aboard. Enjoy unlimited reading on ...

NASA engineer Kobie Boykins, the Pomfret School 2026 Schwartz Visiting Fellow, is scheduled to deliver a public lecture at 7 p.m. Jan. 30 in Hard Auditorium at Pomfret School, according to a community ...