President Joe Biden has tapped former Democratic senator and astronaut Bill Nelson to run the U.S. space agency NASA, according to two people familiar with the decision.

With "one of the coolest jobs in the world", NASA rover operator Vandi Verma hopes women's high profile in the latest Mars ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is briefly out of view as it travels around the sun this week, but researchers and amateur ...

Astronomers may be just weeks away from an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about our solar system’s interstellar visitor. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ...

"We study cometary bodies because they act as time capsules, sealing in material from their formation billions of years ago." The Europa Clipper spacecraft may soon be pummeled by charged particles — ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced on Monday, Oct. 13, it will be laying off 550 employees as part of its continued streamlining and restructuring plan, officials said. Bay Area tech layoffs ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is laying off approximately 550 employees (11% of its workforce) as part of a "reorganization" to create a leaner infrastructure and ensure its future success.

One of the missions, currently on its way to an asteroid, has been saved, but the fate of several others depend on the outcome of the budget dispute. Reading time 3 minutes NASA employees are bracing ...

The U.S. government shut down the same day Juno's last mission extension expired. NASA's spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system's largest celestial body (aside from the sun), ...

NASA on Monday introduced 10 new astronauts, four men and six women selected from more than 8,000 applicants, to begin training for future flights to the International Space Station, the moon and, ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...