As the United States approaches the 250th Anniversary of Independence, NASA is preparing a very specific kind of celebration: a crewed loop around the Moon that quietly doubles as a time capsule.

NASA had a contingency plan in case Apollo astronauts were stranded near the Moon, but it was far stranger and riskier than you might expect.

NASA scientists have found the remains of a U.S. military base buried 100 feet below the surface of the ice in Greenland.

A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New simulations suggest NASA’s upcoming mission could finally solve the mystery.

U.S. astronauts who return to the moon’s surface in the years ahead for the first time in more than half a century will have the difficult and unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered new evidence that sheds light on what scientists know about black holes. Launched more than four years ago, the infrared observatory, and successor to the ...

While flying over Greenland and using advanced radar technology to map the continent's ice, NASA scientists discovered something incredible, an abandoned Cold-War-era U.S. military base 100 feet under ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: During an April 2024 flight over the Greenland Ice Sheet, NASA scientist Chad Greene added a pretty surprising entrant to that list: a secret ...