Space

NASA test-fired the core stage of its massive Space Launch System rocket on Thursday, rattling its south Mississippi test facilities for a duration well beyond what engineers needed for a clean demonstration. The team carried out its second attempt for the hot-fire run after cutting short an initial firing in […]

A month on, we’re all still buzzing about the Perseverance rover’s perfect landing in Jezero Crater on Mars, back on February 18, 2021. Over the past few weeks, NASA has released more stunning imagery and footage of the landing, and since then the world-wide cadre of citizen scientists and image […]

President Biden has tapped former Democratic Senator Bill Nelson for NASA administrator, according to three people familiar with the decision. Nelson, a politically experienced ally of the administration, would steer the space agency as it races to return humans to the Moon, bolsters its climate research and expands its reliance […]

Col. Eric Felt, director of the Space Vehicles Directorate, said the lab is investing in new technologies to support the U.S. Space Force. 

This week, the grandest and most spectacular of all constellations can be found due south and standing upright around 7 p.m. local time, and dominating our winter skies like — to use the words of astronomer Robert H, Baker — “a gigantic piece of jewelry.” 

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first-ever Mars spacecraft captured its most stunning image yet of the Red Planet as the probe continues preparing to begin its science observations in earnest.

NASA will fire up the core stage of its Space Launch System (SLS) on Wednesday (March 18) for the final test in the series of “green run” tests that will determine whether the new megarocket is ready to fly Artemis moon missions.