The Latest Breaking News from NASA

Snapped from lunar orbit in 1968 by NASA astronaut Bill Anders, who died this week at age 90, 'Earthrise' is perhaps the most iconic image of our planet ever taken.

NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope and is calibrating expectations with a supercomputer and the OpenUniverse project.

Astronomers are using the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study stars' radiation and establish the feasibility of exoplanet habitability.

On Episode 115 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the sun and solar activity cycles.

The discovery of water on Enceladus excited the scientific world – now, by 2040 a robot probe will investigate if we are alone in the universe

Following a technical error in November 2023, NASA's deep-space explorer has resumed full science operations.

Leaks happen in space travel. When they’re caught before launch, teams assess whether to call off the flight. But once in space, that choice is taken away.

Voyager 1, NASA's farthest spacecraft, resumes sending data after computer issue, exploring interstellar space.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending science data again

From "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space is overrun with mysterious objects that scientists are clamoring to explain. Here are five of the strangest sights in the universe, as well as their possible origins.

The outer solar system is a vast and mysterious place that could be harboring hidden objects we know almost nothing about — from the elusive Planet Nine and baby black holes to interstellar visitors and "planet killer" asteroids.