NASA is achieving new heights in technology as new, robust electronics can operate in vastly harsher planetary conditions.

U.S. Senators Duckworth, Schmitt, and Bennet push bipartisan bill to enhance NASA-Taiwan space cooperation and strengthen U.S.-Taiwan relations amid China threats.

The agency's watchdog is not impressed. The post NASA Has No Plan to Rescue Lunar Astronauts in Case of Emergency appeared first on Futurism.

Video shows NASA's futuristic solar sail technology prototype. Like a sail on the ocean propels a boat with the wind, this space sail is meant to propel payloads by harnessing the pressure of sunlight.

A new NASA authorization bill moving through the U.S. Senate would extend the International Space Station’s life among other directives.

In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” The death of NASA’s Exploration Upper Stage today represents the inverse of that sentiment.

Would-be regulators seem determined to insert themselves into the final frontier. The only saving grace is that if they want to assert their presence, they'll have to hitch a ride from a private space company.

NASA is targeting an April 1 launch for Artemis II, its first crewed mission around the moon since Apollo, following a successful flight readiness review.

NASA has officially begun testing thenuclear-powered Dragonfly drone, a spacecraft designed to soar across the skies of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The mission, set to launch in 2028, promises to be a groundbreaking journey to one of the most intriguing bodies in our solar system.