This week's science news.

The Moon Base initiative is NASA’s effort to establish infrastructure near the moon’s south pole that would support ...

The massive American flag on NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building is a patriotic icon, but its 1976 bicentennial origin story ...

Pandora mission is designeed to "provide in-depth study of at least 20 known planets orbiting distant stars," according to ...

NASA has selected Relativity Space to fly a dedicated planetary-science mission to Mars, the first time a privately developed rocket has been assigned to carry a full NASA science payload rather than ...

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of ...

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

One thing stands out about the moon base that NASA plans to build at the lunar south pole, possibly later than planned ...

The latest news briefs from NASA science. NASA satellite images show that mangrove forests, which protect shorelines, support coastal ecosystems, and store large amounts of carbon along saltwater ...

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions.

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions. By Kenneth Chang The Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...