Curiosity found large organic molecules in a 2013 Mars rock sample. These fragments suggest Mars had the right chemistry for early life.

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

On Saturday (March 29), SpaceX posted photos on X of the Fram2 mission's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule rolling out ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

How do space programs get their names? Elizabeth Coen | Monterey, California NASA and others have long sought symbolic names ...

It is an artistic creation falling somewhere in the space-time continuum between traditional planetarium show and trippy electronic dance music performance. On March 24, one day before the show was to ...

There will be a large planetary alignment on Aug. 10, 2025, featuring Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, ...

Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.

Anita Mitchell, who was married to late NASA pilot Edgar Mitchell, said the Apollo astronaut and many of his colleagues firmly believed that extra-terrestrial life is out there ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft will make another close brush with the sun, the second of three planned encounters through ...

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