NASA's Voyager 1 closes in on a light-day in interstellar space for a new distance record

NASA’s Voyager 1 is about to become humanity’s first object to reach one light-day from Earth as it pushes ever deeper into ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Four-Person NASA Crew Spent Over a Year on ‘Mars.’ Here’s What They Did for 378 Days in a Simulated Martian Habitat

An intense selection process and long preparation helped set the crew up for cohabitation in a 3D-printed replication of the ...

Mysterious object moving through space could be lost Soviet probe as NASA weighs in on theory

Near-Earth asteroid 1998 KY26 shows nongravitational acceleration, and Harvard researchers say it closely matches lost Soviet ...
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

NASA Invites Media, Public to Join Voyager 1 One-Light Day Activities

Launched nearly 50 years ago in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 on Wednesday, Nov. 18 will have traveled one light-day from Earth, which is more than 16 billion miles (25.9 billion kilometers). Voyager 1 is ...

NASA backs SpaceX amid potential Dem probe into Elon Musk

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discusses the U.S. space race with China and the importance of NASA's partnership with ...
Scientific American

NASA reveals new lunar rover, PROMISE, to launch to moon in 2028

At a press event on Saturday, the agency’s officials stressed that rovers and other infrastructure will be critical to ...

NASA Is Selecting Future Astronauts. Here’s How to Apply.

The new space travelers will most likely be trained for missions to the moon and space stations in low-Earth orbit.
USA Today

Meet 3 lunar rovers that will set the stage for NASA's moon base

NASA's Artemis program is developing rovers to support longterm human habitation on the moon. The VIPER rover will search for water ice and other resources at the lunar south pole. Aerospace companies ...

NASA looks for a few good astronauts to ‘shape humanity’s future in space’

This is the first time NASA has announced a search for more explorers since 2024, after which a class of just 10 astronaut ...

SpaceX's giant rocket may leave NASA in the dust

As it races to develop its new massive rocket, the space launch company is preparing to retire NASA's main ride to the ...
The Planetary Society

NASA is betting on cheaper missions as a way to sustain science. We built a database to check whether it works.

Our new Science Mission Impact study and dashboard examine 143 NASA science missions and 148,534 peer-reviewed papers. Our ...

A NASA Telescope Has Crashed Back to Earth

The space agency estimated that there was a one-in-2,100 chance that debris from the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory could ...