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The red logo was visible as the rocket soared through Earth’s atmosphere during launch in the early morning hours of November 16, 2022.

Looking to nature for inspiration, some researchers are hoping fungi and asteroids will help solve future astronauts’ agricultural dilemma.

We have liftoff! Artemis 1 is headed for the Moon.

Just in time for Black Hole Friday, NASA telescopes have teamed up to reveal new details about the hot air around Cygnus X-1.

The first Thanksgiving in space was celebrated in 1973, when the Skylab 4 astronauts marked the occasion by eating two meals for dinner.

Celebrating the wonder of space flight, Snoopy, the longest-running giant character balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, will return to the sky again this year decked out in astronaut gear.

Nearly thirty-seven years after the tragic loss, an artifact from the Space Shuttle Challenger has been discovered at the bottom of the sea.

The Enceladus Vent Explorer, or EVE, would dive deep into a steep crevass where water-ice jets burst from the ocean below.

This newly developed hardware could support astronaut health on Artemis missions, or provide spin-off benefits here on Earth, with just a drop of blood.

This technology demonstration will use lasers to search for water ice inside the darkest craters at the Moon’s South Pole.

On future missions, astronauts may encounter at least three different gravity fields: weightlessness while traveling in space, the gravity of another planet or moon, and Earth’s gravity once they return home.

For half a century, this remarkable man has led one of NASA’s historic missions.

The Veggie Lab will soon have a new crop to test.

Each year, on November 11, Americans pause to celebrate Veterans Day.

NASA researchers and their industry partners have developed a remote-sensing mapping system to help explore previously uncharted areas.

Once CatSat reaches orbit, compressed gas and a proprietary feed system are used to inflate a spherical antenna made of Mylar.

Instead of fire, the exhaust produced by electric propulsion is a glowing greenish-blue trail, reminiscent of a science fiction movie.

NASA’s analog missions are field tests in locations that have physical similarities to extreme space environments.

After journeying all summer, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in a region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals, which scientists hope will provide tantalizing clues as to how and why the Red Planet’s climate changed from Earth-like to the frozen desert it is today.

NASA rebooted a unique training mission for astronauts to practice rover operations for future Artemis missions.