Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Week, NASA Will Launch a First-of-Its-Kind Mission to Save a Space Telescope That Has Observed the Sky for Nearly 22 Years

In 2024, researchers realized that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was falling from its orbit faster than expected. Now, a ...

Could you give birth in space?

Still, for all the chest-beating talk of looking to the stars, there’s one question that you rarely hear asked: Would ...

NASA looks for the origins of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS | Space photo of the day for June 24, 2026

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is finding clues that are leading scientists toward the origins of the interstellar comet ...

NASA taps Relativity Space for Mars science mission to launch from Cape Canaveral

NASA tapped commercial company Relativity Space to fly its next big Mars science project, which aims to help better protect ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

Put your name aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope arrives at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a late summer launch. See the ...
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NASA and Relativity Space join forces to launch a Mars science mission in 2028

NASA announced the partnership on June 17, 2026. Chief Jared Isaacman called it a "force multiplier" during an event at ...

California Science Center announces opening date to view Space Shuttle Endeavour in launch position

On Nov. 13, the California Science Center's Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will open to visitors as the final phase of ...

First look at the Space Shuttle Endeavor in its new L.A. home

People got their first look on Wednesday, June 24 at the space shuttle Endeavour in its new home at the California Science ...

NASA space image shows one of Arizona’s main bodies of water near-empty

The severe water shortage has resulted in the near-entire fish population of the reservoir being killed off earlier this ...