Blue Origin's famed New Shepard spacecraft simulated the moon's low gravity on board its capsule during a brief flight ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

The agency will simultaneously pursue two landing architectures, or strategic plans, during formulation, encouraging competition and innovation, as well as cost and schedule savings. NASA plans to ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

Traditional sky crane approach: This method would utilize the same rocket-steered landing platform that delivered NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance rovers. 2. Innovative private-sector ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a Delta and United flight nearly collided over Phoenix Harris joins ... to a Professional Organizer Nasa astronaut trapped in space ...

NASA's mission is to return rock, soil and others samples to Earth for study. NASA announced Tuesday that it's exploring two landing options to move forward with its mission to retrieve ...

“We are exploring two new landing options,” said Dr. Nicky Fox, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “One is to leverage technology that was previously used to ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

including NASA instruments. Pittsburgh-based aerospace company Astrobotic Technology had called off its own moon landing attempt in January 2024 when its Peregrine lander began leaking a ...