New Horizons is often placed into a resource-saving mode while cruising long distances, and had been in hibernation near ...

NASA is marking the United States' 250th birthday with four striking red, white, and blue images of deep space from the ...

NASA is expanding its work with commercial space companies, including Blue Origin, as the agency advances efforts to find and track asteroids that could threaten Earth. Blue Origin’s current NASA work ...

No social media but you get to do 'Martian walks'.

NASA has formally begun decommissioning the MAVEN Mars orbiter after 11 years, ending a mission that transformed Mars atmospheric science.

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicat ...

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Dec. 19 (UPI) --Comet 3I/ATLAS passed its nearest point to Earth early Friday and approaching within 168 million miles. After its brief visit Friday the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will head back ...

It’s the farthest long-distance phone call in the known universe. When the astronauts of the Artemis II mission embark Wednesday on their scheduled journey beyond Earth’s orbit, in order to phone home ...

A research volunteer uses augmented reality goggles to perform astronaut-like tasks during a simulated space mission.

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission was at an end.