NASA aerospace engineer Tracy Drain has worked with the space agency for more than two decades, including on projects that have gone to Mars, Jupiter and Psyche (a metal asteroid). She's currently working on the Europa Clipper mission to send a probe to Jupiter's moon Europa, which has a massive ice-covered ocean.

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, built to support the agency's Artemis 2 mission and usher in a new era of crewed flights to the moon, headed out from the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) here at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida this morning (Jan. 17), beginning a 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) trek to Launch Complex-39B (LC-39B).

NASA’s Artemis II mission is rolling toward the launch pad, marking a major step toward humanity’s next journey around the Moon.

NASA astronauts are preparing for two spacewalks to complete tasks outside the International Space Station. Here's what we know about the mission.

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government leadership with commercial innovation to make what is impossible today rapidly implementable in the future," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in the statement.

SYDNEY, Sept. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- When citizen astronaut and entrepreneur Aisha Bowe flew aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard (NS) 31 mission, she carried the question of how humans might one day grow food off-planet, and through this query, created a ...

NASA officials were jittery with excitement as they briefed reporters on the final preparations for Artemis 2 on Friday. This historic mission to slingshot a team of four astronauts around the Moon could lift off in a matter of weeks,

People have played the video game DOOM on anything with a microchip, it seems, from fridge displays, to pregnancy test kits and even ChatGPT. Now enthusiasts can add government and commercial

NASA staffers, advisors, and union representatives continue to watch in horror as the Goddard Space Flight Center closures go on.

During a Jan. 8 press conference, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the crew has completed the majority of their mission objectives. However, the astronauts are returning earlier than their original planned departure due to one of the crew members needing care for a "medical situation," NASA said.