Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

NASA’s Moon to Mars plan prioritizes risk management and safety through systems engineering, redundancy, and collaborative strategies with industry and government partners.

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced a revised NASA authorization bill that implements some changes to Artemis sought by ...

NASA has announced massive changes to its Artemis program, including delaying the first crewed Moon landing since the Apollo program in 1972.

Luna Labs has selected UNC Greensboro (UNCG) chemistry professor Nicholas Oberlies to lead a NASA-funded project exploring whether fungi can be grown into building materials for construction on the ...

What role does imagination play in exploring realms beyond Earth? Imagining the human exploration of Mars depends on creative inquiry across the arts, sciences, and engineering, where speculation is ...

Two University of Florida scholars at the Astraeus Space Institute have played key roles in shaping future American missions to Mars. Their work on a report for the National Academies of Sciences, ...

Explore NASA's Artemis program and the Orion spacecraft as we dive into the debate: should we go back to the moon or head straight to Mars? In this episode of Behind the Wings, we uncover NASA’s plans ...

People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. While the destination is the same, the goals are more ambitious. The program’s ...

Mast Camera, or Mastcam, on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover snapped this rare night-time photo with light from LEDs on another instrument, the PSI-led Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI. Credit: ...

NASA has named eight U.S. companies that are eligible to bid for the development of the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter. The program is intended to develop and deploy an orbiter to enable Mars surface ...