Some 2,500 stars are located in the greater Rosette Nebula, which is some 5,200 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy. Nebulae are vital engines in the cosmos, as they host clouds of dust and gas ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured what’s believed to be the first orbital image of the Curiosity rover ...

The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit has released breathtaking videos of green auroras captured from the International Space Station (ISS), revealing a dazzling view of Earth’s atmospheric ...

Billionaire entrepreneur and space traveler Jared Isaacman, President Trump's nominee to serve as NASA's next administrator, told lawmakers Wednesday he supports sending astronauts back to the ...

NASA is offering $3 million to anyone who can invent a way to “recycle” dozens of bags of poop astronauts left on the moon more than half a century ago. The space agency wants to come up with ...

WASHINGTON, DC—Over the course of a nearly three-hour committee hearing Wednesday, the nominee to lead NASA for the Trump administration faced difficult questions from US senators who sought ...

What’s certain is that Isaacman, if confirmed, would bring a unique background to the role of NASA administrator. The position is typically occupied by civil servants, engineers, scientists or ...

Isaacman's background has won him the endorsement from a key industry group representing more than 85 space companies as well as 28 former astronauts. While NASA's last two leaders were seasoned ...

It was an unusual pick for a NASA administrator, a position typically filled by former politicians or people who have a more traditional background in spaceflight. Isaacman will be asked a series ...

A billionaire named Jared Isaacman is poised to become the next head of NASA, where he would oversee a space agency on the cusp of pivotal crewed missions in the years ahead to the moon and Mars.