The Latest Breaking News from NASA

The discovery of Earendel, a star which is said to be 12.9 billion years old, has excited experts who believe it may hold important answers to the evolution of the universe

Of the 15 members who’ve left the U.S. House since 2018, at least half have gotten into the business of political influence-peddling.

Nasa predicts more geomagnetic solar storms on Thursday after 17 flares erupted from a single sun spot pointing towards Earth which could lead to magnificent sightings

Mark Vande Hei rides back with Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov after 355 days at International Space Station, a US record

A NASA astronaut is back on Earth after a yearlong, record-setting spaceflight

Vande Hei spent 355 consecutive days aboard the International Space Station.

Richard Linklater combines his affinities for rotoscoping and depicting the quiet magic of childhood in a wonderful paean to late-60s idealism

A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts safely landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after leaving the International Space Station aboard the same capsule despite heightened antagonism between Moscow and Washington over the conflict in Ukraine.

A much-anticipated sample-return mission has been pushed back while Perseverance looks for life on the Red Planet

Pluto, the Solar System’s largest dwarf planet, just became even more interesting with a report that icy lava flows have recently covered substantial tracts of its surface. In this context, “recently” means probably no more than a billion years ago. That’s old, of course – and there is no suggestion…

When the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto in 2015, it snapped photos of what appeared to be two massive ice volcanoes. But all is not what it seems.