National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASAs Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins has harvested two crops in space -- 'Amara' mustard, and a previously grown crop, 'Extra Dwarf' pak choi. They were grown for 64 days, the longest leafy greens have grown on station, the US…

Do you know that a NASA spacecraft launched 20 years ago is still working at the Red Planet?For two decades, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet, 2001 Mars Odyssey, has helped locate water ice, assess landing sites, and study the…

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has completed its last flyover of Bennu and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid, the US space agency has said.The flyover was completed at around 6 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, but the mission team will have…

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been dropped on the surface of the Red Planet ahead of its historic first flight scheduled for April 11.Ingenuity flew to Mars while being attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover, which made a…

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu on April 7 as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid's surface.While performing the flyover, the spacecraft will observe Bennu from a distance…

In a finding that may help scientists learn more about Uranus, astronomers have detected X-rays from this enigmatic ice giant planet in our solar system, for the first time.Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has two sets of rings…

Astronomers expect NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to find one lakh planets using two different techniques as it surveys a wide range of stars in the Milky Way.Scheduled for launch in the mid-2020s, Roman will be one of NASA's most…

NASA has completed a crucial hot fire test of the core stage of Space Launch System (SLS) rocket which is designed to power future Moon missions under the agency's Artemis programme.The successful test is a critical milestone ahead of the…

 NASA has named the landing site of its Perseverance Mars rover after the science fiction author Octavia Butler.So the location of the rover's touchdown site is now being called "Octavia E. Butler Landing," the US space agency said last…

Taking a step closer to realising its ambitious sample return programme after the touchdown of the Mars Perseverance rover, NASA has awarded a key contract to Northrop Grumman Systems of Elkton, Maryland.As part of this Mars Ascent…