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Long before Artemis II launched, NASA teams were running simulations to show how the rocket's exhaust plumes would interact with the air, water, and the launchpad.

This robotic arm is the Swiss Army knife of the International Space Station.

It's Tax Day. But if you think your taxes are complicated, try filing taxes as an astronaut.

Space really is the final frontier, and we're on the brink of so many new discoveries about it.

NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with Columbia's first launch on April 12th, 1981.

Astronauts describe the moment they first saw our home planet from space as profound and life changing.

On April 9th,1959, NASA presented the Mercury 7, America's first astronauts.

Recent observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out any danger to Earth or the Moon from Asteroid 24 YR4.

When flying in certain weather conditions, tiny freezing water droplets floating in the air can accumulate on an aircraft, posing a serious safety risk.

As Artemis astronauts travel around the Moon, they will venture beyond Earth's protective magnetic field.

Just like many of us, astronauts on the International Space Station look forward to weekends.

In 1960, NASA launched the first weather satellite to determine if Earth could really be studied from space.

He may have been the fifth person to walk on the Moon, but he was the first to play golf there.

The tradition started with a single crockpot of ham and beans after the first successful shuttle launch.

People around the world will be able to pinpoint Orion during its ten-day trip around the Moon.

NASA's Artemis II mission will carry mementos that honor our nation's long tradition of exploration.

Exploring ocean worlds, like Europa, Enceladus or Titan, require electronics that can function in unforgiving conditions.

When NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, one of two asteroids in a binary system, the crash shifted the orbit of both asteroids around the Sun.

The farther the destination, the more fuel a rocket needs. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the spacecraft. The heavier the spacecraft, the more fuel it requires to launch.

Snow covered the ground that Tuesday morning one hundred years ago. A professor, his wife and two colleagues were about to soar into the future.

While meteorologists have been celebrating spring since the first of March, astronomically speaking, spring begins today.

NASA is tackling the challenge of safely integrating air taxi technologies into the national airspace system.

NASA's Curiosity rover has seen the Martian spiderwebs up close.

With no refrigeration, resupply, or late-load capability, all food that will fly aboard Artemis II was carefully chosen for the mission.

Many of us are adjusting our biological clocks as we spring forward into daylight savings time.

NASA supports the design and development of multiple commercial space stations like Starlab.

As part of the REACCH Demonstration, tentacle-like arms that extend and wrap around objects were added to one of the Astrobee robotic units in orbit.

Driving on Mars is no easy task. But generative AI and other smart tools are streamlining the process.

Anything that goes into space and returns to Earth must pass through Earth's atmosphere, making atmospheric flight testing critical for space missions.

In 1973, science fiction author Al Nussbaum wrote about a farmer on Mars whose daughter looks up at a twinkling star – Earth.

Venus is so hot it can melt a spacecraft in hours. But that's not stopping researchers from looking into an ambitious idea to bring a piece of Venus back to Earth.

NASA undertakes high-risk, high-reward missions to discover revolutionary ways of doing new science.

While several robotic missions have landed on Mars, NASA has explored only one percent of the Martian surface.

Crew-12 is safely aboard the International Space Station.

If the sky is clear, you could see a blood Moon in the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 3rd.

Sending humans to and from Mars is impossible without a reliable source of oxygen.

Testing for the spacesuits that will be worn by NASA's Artemis III crew is underway.

This is National Engineers Week. And no one understands how engineering transforms our future better than NASA.

TEMPO has a new trick. It can see in the dark.

In an area defined by stark Arctic expanses and rugged terrain, life persists. Even a glacier found here pulses like a heart.

The same coating that protected the shuttle is used to create cold-weather gear that emits body heat back to the wearer.

Astronauts need hearty nutrients to maintain a healthy diet in space.