October brings big space launches, from SpaceX Starship and Amazon’s Kuiper satellites to Blue Origin’s lunar lander and Mars probes. VCG via Getty Images With the first weeks of the fall season ...

NASA furloughed more than 15,000 employees when the federal government shut down Wednesday, but mission control operations continue in Houston.

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. NASA’s VIPER lunar rover ...

The first of these was the loss of space shuttle Columbia in February, the second fatal shuttle accident, which signaled that the shuttle era was nearing its end, and it began a period of ...

A groundbreaking study led by NASA, with pivotal contributions from Imperial College London, has emerged, offering fresh insights into Mars' ancient past. Researchers have identified minerals and ...

To understand their activities in space on that first day, Ars spoke with each of the four crew members—Hansen, alongside Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Payload Specialist Christina ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals. The presence of iron-phosphate and iron-sulfide nodules suggests processes ...

The White House wants to slash NASA's budget. Space agency whistleblowers say that poses major safety risks, and could potentially endanger astronauts.

Flying 250 miles overhead, the international space station can be seen with the naked eye, orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes, usually carrying a crew of six. Now, before construction of the station ...

The four astronauts set to climb aboard the first Orion spacecraft to fly humans have already given it a name.

NASA canceled the VIPER rover mission to the moon last year, citing cost overruns. But the space agency has announced a plan to revive it.

Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how the resulting smoke affects air quality, human health and climate change.