As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.

On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...

The Senate's report supports Space.com's findings, stating, "as early as June 2025, NASA began 'implementing immediately' ...

The Taurid meteor shower is composed of two streams known as the Southern Taurids and the Northern Taurids. We explore this ...

The jet, built by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, took off from US Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California. Flown by Nils ...

A supersonic jet plane designed to make very little noise took flight for the first time this week, cruising over the ...

A mosaic of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, created with images captured by Cassini’s spacecraft in Oct. 2008. Courtesy of NASA via NASA.gov Scientists love to scour the surfaces of planets and moons for ...

NASA is opening up its SpaceX moon landing contract to competition amid concerns that the U.S. could fall behind China in ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...

Bill Nye the Science Guy on Monday protested against a federal budget proposal that would see NASA's funding reduced from $24 billion to $18.8 billion.

The vast majority of NASA's employees could be furloughed and all but its most critical operations – including management of the International Space Station – are likely to be paused. Many NASA ...

Reached by the USA TODAY Network, a spokesperson for the U.S. space agency referred questions about a potential shutdown to a landing page on NASA.gov with the latest information, employee guidance ...