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

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a new time-lapse video showing some of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites streaking across space. Other lines of light appearing in the 18-second clip captured ...

Photographer extraordinaire Don Pettit is about to return to Earth following a seven-month stay aboard the space station. Take a moment to enjoy his best work.

Pop star Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King are among six women who traveled aboard Blue Origin’s all-female, suborbital space tourism ... a former NASA engineer who was on board today ...

This week was monumental for NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission. The four small satellites sent to low Earth orbit opened their eyes metaphorically for the first ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other leaders said it makes sense to move NASA’s headquarters out of Washington D.C. and on to the Space Coast. During a press conference ...

There was certainly news coverage but not the kind of global audience that has attended other crewed space launches. That’s not the way it was on May 5, 1961, when NASA astronaut Alan Shepard ...

Blue Origin sending all-female crew into space April 14, including Katy Perry, Gayle King. You need to be at least 18 to fly, and there's a $150,000 deposit. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos ...

Katy Perry and five other women successfully launched into space on Monday on the first all ... were joined by CBS News host Gayle King, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe, civil rights ...

What’s out there? We don’t know for sure, but the best space exploration games let you discover alien worlds, dodge supermassive black holes, or become an interstellar trucker. Dust off your ...

While duct tape is often used for small fixes at home, it rises to higher occasions as well: Every NASA space mission leaves earth with a good supply of duct tape, and on at least two occasions ...