When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's twin Voyager probes were launched in the late 1970s to explore the outer planets in our ...

NASA entered a new chapter in its prestigious history of space exploration when the shuttle was retired in 2011 after 30 years. The space agency relied on Russia to get U.S. cargo and astronauts to ...

NASA's Juno probe successfully went into orbit around Jupiter July 4, and we'll get to see incredible close-up images of the planet just like with Pluto's flyby last year. Jupiter is the biggest ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States government agency that conducts research into space. There are 10 major NASA facilities, including ...

The NASA InSight lander officially retires, as confirmed by NASA. A replica of the InSight Mars Lander is on display at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California on November 26, ...

Black holes are often portrayed as cosmic monsters—mysterious voids that devour everything in their path, including light itself. While that description isn’t far off, there’s a lot more to these ...

NASA's Lucy Mission is about to happen this Saturday, Oct. 16. Specifically, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration new space launch is expected to blast off exactly at 9:34 a.m. UTC or ...

Psyche probe, folded inside the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, was slated for blastoff at 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center. Scientists hope to learn more about ...

Mind-blowing NASA facts about the Big Bang TheoryAlthough astronomers cannot directly witness the universe's formation, much of what we know about the Big Bang Theory comes from advanced mathematical ...

Blue Origin was denied a lucrative NASA lunar lander contract — but it’s refusing to go down without a fight. Now unsealed court documents show the nature of its SpaceX-centered lawsuit against the ...

NASA scientists and a team of 59 international experts today detailed some of their findings about the meteoroid that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on Feb. 15, 2013. And what they have ...