National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Washington : Carrying a Moon microscope and solar arrays, SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA was on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), With more than 7,700 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies and…

Washington : NASA engineers have taken its Mars Ingenuity helicopter on a short but important 18-second successful flight to test new capabilities.The operations team has been working on the new capabilities over the past few weeks. The…

Washington : The US space agency on Saturday successfully performed a burn to insert Orion spacecraft under the Artemis I Moon mission into lunar orbit and Orion will fly about 40,000 miles (64,400 kms) above the moon. Flight Controllers…

Washington : NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully performed its first Moon flyby as part of the uncrewed Artemis I mission, to pass within 130 kms of the lunar surface.According to NASA, on its sixth day into the Artemis I mission,…

London : Not just SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the US space agency also thinks that humans could stay on the Moon for a longer period in this decade. Howard Hu, who leads the Orion lunar spacecraft programme for NASA, told the BBC that the Artemis…

Washington : NASA has awarded a contract modification to Elon Musk-run SpaceX to further develop its Starship human landing system to meet agency requirements for long-term human exploration of the Moon under Artemis. With this addition,…

Washington : A TV documentary crew seeking the wreckage of a World War II-era aircraft has discovered an artefact from the destroyed space shuttle Challenger that killed seven astronauts aboard, including a school teacher, in 1986.…

Washington : NASA has once again delayed its Artemis I Moon mission launch owing to a tropical storm next week.This mission was scheduled to finally launch on November 14 but tropical storm Nicole approaching the Florida coast has forced…

Washington : After several failed attempts, the US space agency is hopeful that on November 14, it will be able to finally launch the Artemis I Moon mission into space.Artemis I will provide a foundation for human exploration in deep space…

Washington : The U.S. space agency has announced that it will launch its delayed Psyche mission, aimed at investigating an asteroid of similar name, in October next year.NASA selected Psyche in 2017 to investigate a previously unexplored…