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 ...

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.

NASA’s Curiosity rover is investigating strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars that may reveal a hidden chapter of the planet’s watery history. These “boxwork” formations likely formed when groundwater ...

NASA’s University Innovation (UI) project funds university-led innovation to address the agency’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s system-level challenges via independent, ...

Would-be regulators seem determined to insert themselves into the final frontier. The only saving grace is that if they want to assert their presence, they'll have to hitch a ride from a private space ...

In 2022, NASA hit Dimorphos with a spacecraft. But looking back through the data, astronomers believe they have found evidence of an impact event prior to the big test.

No joke, NASA astronauts are set to blast off to the moon on April 1. The space agency said Thursday, March 12, that they have completed the Artemis II Flight Readiness Review. They added the mission ...

After postponing launch opportunities in February and March, the agency determined that four astronauts could proceed toward the first crewed lunar journey in more than 50 years.

Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo’s new book The Ascent of Rauschenberg explores the artist's fascination with flight ...

Researchers from NASA’s Earth Science Division have joined the Industry Advisory Board of the Science Center for Marine ...

N ASA has revealed the surprisingly sophisticated meals that astronauts will eat on their way around the Moon during the ...

AI models are designing new metal alloys that have been 3D-printed and tested in the lab. The results are then fed back into ...