National Aeronautics and Space Administration news and stories

March 19, 2020

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled moon, dies at 88

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, ...

March 09, 2020

SpaceX's 20th station shipment arrives with candy, science

A SpaceX cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, delivering the company's 20th batch of gear and ...

March 07, 2020

Hundreds attend service for NASA pioneer Katherine Johnson

Three black astronauts joined hundreds of other mourners Saturday at a memorial service for pioneering African American ...

March 07, 2020

SpaceX launches station supplies, nails 50th rocket landing

SpaceX successfully launched another load of station supplies for NASA late Friday night and nailed its 50th rocket landing.

March 05, 2020

Meet Perseverance: Mars rover gets name ahead of July launch

NASA's next Mars rover finally has a name. Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to ...

February 28, 2020

Boeing blames incomplete testing for astronaut capsule woes

Boeing acknowledged Friday it failed to conduct full and adequate software tests before the botched space debut of its ...

February 28, 2020

Justice Dept. charges professor with hiding ties to China

A professor at the University of Tennessee has been arrested on charges that he hid his relationship with a Chinese ...

February 25, 2020

Pioneering black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and ...

February 24, 2020

Mars lander confirms quakes, even aftershocks on red planet

NASA's newest Mars lander has confirmed that quakes and even aftershocks are regularly jolting the red planet.

February 20, 2020

'Black in Space' looks at final frontier of civil rights

In 1959, Ronald Erwin McNair walked into a South Carolina library. The 9-year-old aspiring astronaut wanted to check out a ...

February 18, 2020

SpaceX aims to launch up to 4 tourists into super high orbit

SpaceX aims to launch up to four tourists into a super high orbit, possibly by the end of next year. The private company is ...

February 14, 2020

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even ...

February 13, 2020

NASA's space snowman reveals secrets: few craters, no water

NASA's space snowman is revealing fresh secrets from its home far beyond Pluto. More than a year after its close encounter ...

February 12, 2020

Record-setting astronaut feels good after near year in space

NASA's new record-setting astronaut said Wednesday that aside from sore muscles and trouble with balance, she's readjusting ...

February 10, 2020

Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture 1st look at sun's poles

Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures ...

February 06, 2020

NASA's record-setting Koch, crewmates safely back from space

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who spent nearly 11 months in orbit to set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, ...

January 29, 2020

NASA shutting down space telescope, infrared eyes to cosmos

NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- after 16 years of scanning the ...

January 29, 2020

Astronaut craves salsa and surf after record 11 months aloft

After nearly 11 months in orbit, the astronaut holding the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman can't wait to dig ...