A year-end recap of 2025 in space, covering NASA leadership changes, space policy, major missions, scientific discoveries and key events across orbit and beyond.

The delivered thrusters will enable the Gateway station to reach and maintain its orbit around the Moon, supporting Artemis ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since it landed there in spectacular fashion nearly five ...

Every two years, the Sun blocks communication between Earth and Mars during solar conjunction, forcing NASA to pause commands ...

"We are faced with another space race," Jared Isaacman, NASA's new administrator, told NBC News after he was sworn in on ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

Mars at sunset reveals dozens of razor-thin atmospheric layers in stunning detail, helping scientists map dust and ice ...

Humanity has sent into space everything from lightsabers and Tesla Roadsters to golden records and entire digital genetic ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

An instrument aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft’s unique ...

A new investigation by NASA’s Perseverance rover has revealed striking details about vast wind-shaped structures on Mars ...

The US space agency NASA has lost contact with the Mars probe MAVEN. No regular data had been received for around two weeks. The orbiter, which has been studying the Martian atmosphere since 2014, ...