There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

SPHEREx entered Phase C of NASA’s Project Life Cycle in January 2021, allowing mission teams to finalize the mission’s design and begin constructing and assembling spacecraft components.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa) Messenger spacecraft has sent back its first visible-light images of water ice on Mercury, the tiny charbroiled planet that orbits ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...

“The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets,” said Patrick Koehn, Voyager program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, in a statement.

But because Venus and Mercury orbit closer to the sun than Earth, with smaller, faster orbits, it's more rare for them to make an appearance, according to NASA. Venus is visible for only a few ...

March 7 (UPI) --NASA on Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry astronauts in the first crewed Artemis mission ...

Scientists are gearing up to send a spacecraft to the Moon to map its water resources, potentially aiding future colonisation efforts. The Lunar Trailblazer, set to take off from NASA's Kennedy ...

Known as the Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology, or "HEEET" for short, the rugged spacecraft outerwear that looks like something out of "Star Wars" was invented at NASA's Ames ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures ...

Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its first robotic spacecraft on the moon on Sunday in partnership with NASA, marking the second time a commercial lander has pulled off the feat as more ...