NASA

In a joint effort between the Italian Space Agency and NASA, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launched on December 9th. The observatory is NASA's first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from extreme…

NASA wants young engineers to design a robot for excavation on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest, open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools (and home-schoolers), is a collaboration between NASA and Future Engineers. The…

Voyager Space is buying Valley Tech Systems. Voyager's acquisition is in. line with expanding its focus to further support DoD missions for a safe operating environment for commercial space. ISR technologies are a first line of defense for…

Cryogenic liquid hydrogen (LH2) is the most challenging but highest-performing propellant for lunar and deep space exploration. NASA will launch the Cryogenic Demonstration Mission in 2023 and demonstrate numerous novel cryogenic propellant…

Kristoff Misquitta (18) won the 2020 Genes in Space competition with an experiment investigating why astronauts require higher doses of pharmaceutical drugs to achieve a therapeutic effect. His experiment was launched to the International…

Gene Roddenberry, visionary, American writer and television and film producer who created and was the executive producer of Star Trek , would have turned 100.  To celebrate his legacy, NASA will observe Roddenberry's 100th birthday with a…

PickNik Robotics was just awarded a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop its technology for advanced planning capabilities for robots in microgravity…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new job. Ingenuity will embark on a new operations demonstration phase after two more flights, exploring how aerial scouting and other functions will benefit future exploration of Mars and other…

NASA selected SpaceX to develop the first commercial human lander that will carry the next two American astronauts to the moon as part of the Artemis program. The Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion…

Tune in to see a 14,000-pound test version of the Orion spacecraft dropped into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6. NASA…