When the general public thinks about NASA, they likely think about space shuttles, rockets, satellites, and the International Space Station in Earth's lower orbit. Despite NASA's future without the ...

As I’m writing this, American space agency NASA is in the middle of the first (and, hopefully, the only) wet dress rehearsal of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will send four ...

Astronauts will soon be able to phub each other in space, after NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that they will be able to take their phones on future missions. Historically, NASA hasn't ...

The acquisition of the radio frequency signal from the Artemis II crewed mission to the moon by NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) is indicated by the peak in the data signal shown on the top computer ...

NASA's asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft flew by Mars for a gravity assist on the way to its final target. And it took some ...

It’s the farthest long-distance phone call in the known universe. When the astronauts of the Artemis II mission embark Wednesday on their scheduled journey beyond Earth’s orbit, in order to phone home ...

Mars exploration is heating up. NASA eyes sample returns and crewed landings by the 2030s, but its current relay satellites -- some decades past design life -- struggle with data traffic from rovers, ...