At a headquarters in Kent, Wash., engineers are assembling giant barrel-shaped sections of a rocket and two very different engines designed to make not just the booster but the upper stage of the ...

Elon Musk, as a businessman, is primarily known for three of his many enterprises. One is X, formerly Twitter, nowadays ...

NASA announced its spacecraft will orbit asteroid 16 Psyche for 26 months, collecting data to uncover its history and other ...

There's no shortage of cool features of mysterious origins to be found on the surface of Mars, but the next one that NASA ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a ...

Virginia’s journey into space began modestly in 1945 with the establishment of NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Initially, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a monthslong trek to a formation called the boxwork, a ...

NASA's Curiosity captured a 360-degree panorama before leaving Gediz Vallis channel, a feature it’s been exploring for the past year. The rover embarks on a journey to Mars' boxwork formation, ...

2025 could prove to be one of the most transformative years on record for the space economy.

ESA's Hera mission has successfully executed critical maneuvers to align with the Didymos binary asteroid system, leveraging Mars for a gravity assist to shorten travel time. As it journeys, Hera will ...

NASA scientists are hoping to understand the history of where they found the rocks — and for evidence of ancient microbial ...

Following the 1990s discovery that Mars had once been a watery oasis in the solar system’s habitable zone, NASA devised a ...