The Latest Breaking News from NASA

PHILADELPHIA — NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission aims to bring 30 samples of rock, soil and atmosphere now being collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth sometime in the early 2030s. The goal is to look for signs of past life and also to find out more about the…

PHILADELPHIA — Since September, the Perseverance rover has been picking along an ancient river delta on Mars, its robotic arms reaching out with whirling steel drill bits to core rocks, scoop soil and suck small amounts of the red planet's atmosphere into titanium tubes.

A study of bone loss in 17 astronauts who flew aboard the International Space Station is providing a fuller understanding of the effects of space travel on the human body and steps that can mitigate it, crucial knowledge ahead of potential ambitious future missions. The research amassed new data on…

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc (NYSE:J) has secured NASA's JSC Engineering, Technology, and Science (JETS) II contract. The cost-plus-award-fee IDIQ contract has a potential base value of $1.8 billion. The contract has a total potential performance period of 10 years. Under the contract, Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, will provide engineering and…

Four men dressed in costumes from the show Peaky Blinders have gone viral after they robbed a global arts fair in Maastricht.

NASA say the mystery rocket which created a huge double crater in the moon remains unidentified after striking the surface at around 5,700 mph back in March

More than 74 nations and a rapidly growing number of private companies are participating in a burgeoning space economy – including New Zealand, write Mitchell Bruce and Robert G Patman

NASA photographs the crash site of an unknown rocket that smashed into the Moon, creating two large craters.

NASA has dropped some hints about the mystery targets for Webb's first images. Here's everything we know so far.