The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

It’s hard not to wonder whether NASA and the United States’ space program will survive the Republican president's second term ...

L ast month, work began on the world’s first space-based gravitational wave detector. The European Space Agency and partner aerospace companies are developing orbiting, detector spacecraft to observe ...

Senator Ted Cruz, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee which oversees NASA's budget, has supported Artemis in the past, so it is not certain that NASA's budget will be cut by as much as the Trump ...

NASA's leadership change comes at a pivotal moment for the agency, which is already bracing for potentially severe funding ...

On Wednesday evening (July 9), President Donald Trump named Sean Duffy interim chief of the space agency. Duffy takes over ...

NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson splashed down safely in the Pacific early on Tuesday after her fifth trip to the International Space Station, joined by crewmates from India, Poland ...

NASA is turning 60 on Monday, Oct. 1. Over six decades, it's had a remarkable run of rocketeering and exploratory achievements, from the moon landings to the space shuttles, from the surface of ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

The head of Russia’s space agency says new US sanctions have the potential “to destroy our cooperation” on the International Space Station. There are currently four NASA astronauts, two ...

Africa’s new space agency has an important role to play in coordinating satellite data and boosting connectivity.

The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo’s Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing ...