The X-59 jet, dubbed the “son of Concorde,” is one step closer to takeoff after the experimental aircraft taxied on a ...

The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it ...

Four undergrads at Texas Christian University joined forces to create a seam that is meant to prevent lunar dust from ...

A new study published this month has issued an urgent call for future endeavors in space exploration to take nuclear space travel seriously. Similar to … The post It’s time to get serious about ...

It’s not like we’re putting Sean Duffy in charge of a NASA that is going to try to go somewhere. He just needs to sit with it ...

The most storied path to space has traditionally been through the government. NASA and Russia’s ROSCOSMOS have both been sending humans to orbit since 1961, and in recent decades many other ...

It comes after the Artemis I mission was completed in December last year after spending 25.5 days in space and making a 1.4-million-mile journey around the moon, according to NASA.

SpaceX and Axiom Space launch first all-private joint mission 05:38. NASA is not trusting private citizens to travel to the International Space Station on their own — instead, it wants them to ...

That’s good, since interruptions in space are risky. It's been imbued into space since the first moon landing, in 1969. Last month, The Verge reported that Blue Origin was making employees ...

However, traveling to space poses risks to the human body. Since NASA wants to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s, scientists need to find solutions for these hazards sooner rather than later.

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility to find out how astronauts are preparing for this high stakes exploration.