The samples could change what we know about the origins of the solar system. A seven-year-long NASA mission has come to an end with the first asteroid sample collected in space. This capsule, the size of a microwave oven, landed safely on Sunday morning to ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may not have had the headline-grabbing power of last year's historic lunar landing, which drew attention both for the fact that ...

After eight months in orbit, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is about to depart the International Space Station (ISS) for the journey back to Earth. Kim will be traveling home alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft.

As soon as this week, NASA officials will make perhaps the agency’s most consequential safety decision in human spaceflight in 21 years. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are nearly 10 weeks into a test flight that was originally set to ...

WASHINGTON — A NASA safety panel expressed concerns about NASA’s plans to shift from the International Space Station to commercial successors, including funding for an ISS deorbit vehicle. At its Oct. 26 public meeting, NASA’s the Aerospace Safety ...

Pamela Melroy, former Deputy Administrator of NASA, talks about the importance of NASA to U.S. interests amid concerns about proposed budget cuts. The group of nearly 300 current and former employees at NASA published what they called the Voyager Declaration.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Decades after the U.S. began and won a space race with the Soviet ...

Former NASA Administrator Bill Nelson speaking on a panel March 29 during the "Earth to Space" festival at the Kennedy Center. Credit: SpaceNews/Jeff Foust WASHINGTON — Former NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says he is concerned about some of the recent ...

The Apollo 11 mission included the consumption of the first meal on the Moon, consisting of bacon, peaches, cookies, a fruit drink, and coffee. NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), a massive structure used for assembling the Saturn V rocket, is among ...

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Big changes are clearly underway at the U.S.’s premier space outfit, and now industry news site NASAWatch reports the space agency is going to implement a “near real time” employee tracking system, presumably to gather data that justifies other ...