"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

NASA launched an exoplanet-hunting experiment Oct. 1 despite the government shutdown. After the mission's end on Oct. 2, news ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

Kennedy Space Center is a top field trip choice for Central Florida schools offering a mix of history, science and fun.

An experiment designed by two Osbourn High School students during their time at Metz Middle School has launched into space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket. Sophia Garcia and Victoria Ingram, ...

The vast majority of NASA's employees could be furloughed and all but its most critical operations – including management of the International Space Station – are likely to be paused. Many NASA ...

A scientist’s island epiphany uncovers how single-use bottles shed micro- and nanoplastics that infiltrate the body, with emerging evidence of chronic harm and measurement blind spots. Credit: ...

Of more than 18,000 workers employed at NASA, about 82.8% of them would be sent home without pay – or furloughed – during a government shutdown. Even if the government were to shut down, NASA's ...

Every rocket launch is different and it takes a lot of people and safety checks to ensure that a 5.75 million pound rocket can safely launch into space. Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut and ...

It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable” planet. But on an eighth-floor terrace near the U.S. Capitol building, dozens of ...

A returned astronaut had a surprise when she gazed out of a passenger plane window and saw a rocket she had recently ridden. NASA spacewoman Anne McClain watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rise into the ...