The aspiration of returning American astronauts to the moon has been in limbo for decades, as plans have been embraced and rejected from one presidential administration to the next. In 2026, however, ...

Over the past ten years or so, American space agency NASA has become a major player in the aviation industry, getting itself involved in all sorts of projects meant to inform the design of the ...

NASA conducted a full-scale static test fire of the Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension (BOLE) solid rocket motor - part of the Space Launch System at a test facility in Utah. An anomaly occurred ...

On April 28, 1988, Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered explosive decompression at 24,000 feet when a section of the fuselage tore away. The Boeing 737 had logged over 80,000 short-haul cycles, far ...

The Artemis II crew completed a launch day simulation, a key step before their mission around the moon. The mission, slated for as early as February, will be a 10-day test flight aboard the Orion ...

NASA's ongoing testing and management of the Perseverance Mars rover has confirmed it should be able to continue its journeys on the Red Planet for many years and miles to come. It's covered about 25 ...

In recent tests at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, a launch vehicle battery was mounted on a thin layer of MetaSeismic material before being subjected to intensive vibration. Credit: ...

At the end of November, NASA’s next great telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — officially finished construction. Teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland joined the inner ...

A new commercial space station mockup is ready for astronauts to test the kitchen layout, develop emergency procedures and train for future missions. Starlab Space recently completed a three-story, ...

NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For months, space scientists scratched their heads and crunched the data. Then on ...

After reaching Mars with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter proved a huge success as it exceeded expectations with an astonishing 72 flights across the Martian surface.

In 2014, NASA awarded Boeing's Starliner a contract to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). But after some technical issues during Starliner's 2024 crewed test flight, the ...