The Latest Breaking News from NASA

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brainteasers for future quizzes ​

The FAA has cleared the Falcon 9 rocket to return to flight, freeing NASA and SpaceX to target Feb. 11 for the launch of the Crew-12 astronaut mission to the International Space Station.

As satellite launches skyrocket and orbital debris multiplies, aviation authorities are scrambling to prevent space junk from causing the next major flight disruption

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman took Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for a ride over the Artemis 2 launch pad recently.

"We studied the last several orbits before the merger, when the entwined magnetic fields undergo rapid and dramatic changes, and modeled potentially observable high-energy signals."

A new finding of ammonia on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa could have important implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions to be explored going forward."

A late January 2026 winter storm left more than snow and ice in its wake.

Frank Malina was a lot of things. The Texas-born aeronautical engineer co-designed the first jet-assisted take-off (Jato) rocket and the US’s first operational high-altitude rocket. He co-founded and became director of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory – and along the way, joined a team of rocket engineers who became known as…