Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered ...

NASA scientists are warning that the Sun’s internal engine is behaving in ways they have not seen in years, pointing to an abrupt shift in the star’s magnetic and energetic rhythms that drive space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amy Fritz, a dust-mitigation researcher at Johnson Space Center, pours simulated lunar dust into a bed tray for testing hardware ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

The Swift Observatory was launched into space in 2004 from what is now the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. NASA is planning a first-of-its-kind mission to save the Swift Observatory from falling ...

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, NASA is preparing to launch astronauts around the moon. On Wednesday, the agency will attempt to send four crew members — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, ...

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The lunar outpost will be located at the moon's south pole to explore the region and utilize resources like water ice. Construction is estimated to cost $20 billion and will occur in three phases ...

Not everyone who wants to go to Mars needs to leave Earth to help get humanity there. NASA is recruiting volunteers to spend a full year sealed inside a pair of connected habitats at Johnson Space ...

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching <i>Orlando Sentinel/Getty Images via CNN Newsource</i><br/>The Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft By ...