When Apollo 11 landed astronauts on the Moon in July 1969, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 15 was already orbiting nearby, ...

Constructed in Prince George's County, LEMS will collect critical data to help NASA determine where it is safest to establish ...

NASA had previously said much of the observatory burned up upon reentry. The risk to people on Earth was low, the agency said ...

The space agency is still on track to launch Artemis III next summer on a docking exercise with lunar landers.

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory — formerly known as the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer — is in its final days. The space ...

NASA is moving fast on its plans to build a moon base and return astronauts to the lunar surface in as little as two years. Administrator Jared Isaacman said Friday that the space agency is still on ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After spending 10 days going to the moon and back, NASA’s Artemis II mission has come to an end after the four crew members finished their lunar flyby in a splashdown in San ...

The crew is traveling aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, which undocked Oct. 7 from the ISS. A parachute-assisted splashdown is scheduled to occur Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Pacific Ocean near California.

One of NASA's premier space telescopes plunged to Earth on Wednesday, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe's ...

On August 19, 2026, NASA said: Due to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency ...

The Swift Observatory is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower.