National Aeronautics and Space Administration news and stories

February 11, 2019

NASA's faraway space snowman has flat, not round, behind

The faraway space snowman visited by NASA last month has a surprisingly flat — not round — behind. New photos from the New ...

February 07, 2019

Pence promises missions to the moon and Mars during ceremony

Vice President Mike Pence is honoring the nation's fallen astronauts during a NASA day of remembrance at Arlington National ...

January 23, 2019

Blue Origin shoots NASA experiments into space in test

Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, launched NASA experiments into space Wednesday on a brief test flight. The New ...

January 14, 2019

China says it exchanged data with NASA on far side landing

China exchanged data with NASA on its recent mission to land a Chinese spacecraft on the far side of the moon, the Chinese ...

January 09, 2019

Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera shuts down

The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardware problem. NASA said the camera stopped working ...

January 06, 2019

Russian space agency bemoans head's canceled US trip

Russia's space agency is complaining that the invitation for its head to visit the U.S. has been cancelled without informing ...

January 03, 2019

NASA: Icy object past Pluto looks like reddish snowman

A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial ...

January 01, 2019

Spacecraft opens new year with flyby on solar system's edge

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy ...

January 01, 2019

NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets records

A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft ...

December 21, 2018

Science Says: A big space crash likely made Uranus lopsided

Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was ...

December 18, 2018

NASA's 1st flight to moon, Apollo 8, marks 50th anniversary

Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, a tumultuous year of assassinations, riots and war drew to a close in heroic and hopeful ...

December 11, 2018

NASA's first look: Tiny asteroid is studded with boulders

NASA's first look at a tiny asteroid shows the space rock is more moist and studded with boulders than originally thought.

December 08, 2018

SpaceX Christmas delivery arrives at space station

A SpaceX delivery full of Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, following a slight delay ...

December 04, 2018

NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor

After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of ...

December 03, 2018

3 astronauts safely aboard International Space Station

Three astronauts who were launched into space aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Monday entered the International Space ...

November 25, 2018

NASA weighs in on petroleum development in Arctic Ocean

The federal agency that oversees offshore petroleum leasing has received comment on Arctic Ocean drilling from a surprise ...

November 24, 2018

With a smirk, official says Russia will verify moon landings

The head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency has said that a proposed Russian mission to the moon will be tasked with ...

November 22, 2018

Big test coming up for tiny satellites trailing Mars lander

A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA's InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars face their biggest test yet.

November 19, 2018

Russian, US officials say space cooperation remains strong

Russian and U.S. space officials hailed the joint work of their programs Monday and said cooperation remains strong despite ...