NASA’s defunct Van Allen Probe A burned up over the eastern Pacific Ocean on March 11, 2026, splashing down west of the Galapagos Islands years ahead of schedule. The 1,323-pound spacecraft, which ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

Discover how commercial space stations will replace the ISS, fuel the post ISS space industry, and unlock new opportunities for research, tourism, and in-orbit manufacturing.

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about asteroid evolution.

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.

Radio silence has long puzzled those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, but the answer might lie much closer to the source of potential signals than previously thought. Conditions around ...

"ULA’s Centaur (with minor modifications) is the only existing in-space propulsion stage capable of meeting the SLS upper stage design parameters and performance characteristics, while also meeting ...

For years, the walk-in shower defined the modern bathroom: airy, streamlined, and quietly luxurious. Now, a more enclosed “capsule” style is gaining momentum—promising spa-like comfort, ...

Elon Musk said SpaceX is pushing back even further the maiden launch of the company's next version of its gigantic and powerful Starship rocket.

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...