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Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation

"This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating."

NASA issues long-awaited call to industry for private space stations

"We’ve made it clear that NASA will never give up its presence in low Earth orbit."

If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency

"We are in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US."

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."

SpaceX describes surgical intervention before launch of latest crew mission

With Crew-13, Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to lead a mission into space.

NASA squeezed Treasury, vibe coded, and broke the mold in bid to save Swift

"We did some really, really cool stuff. I'm absolutely gutted we weren't able to get further."

NASA has a Dragon dilemma, and there appear to be no good answers

So is SpaceX just being selfish or what?

Boeing "incredibly excited" to serve as nation's only astronaut transportation

"We couldn't provide detailed pricing to the CLD suppliers."

NASA, for the time being, is unable to move the space station's large robotic arm

NASA isn't saying much. The problem may be temporary.

With PRIMA, NASA will try to build a billion-dollar space telescope in record time

NASA's PRIMA mission will use spare parts from Webb to do major science at a lower cost.

Donald Duck's uncle was partly based on Wernher von Braun

Introducing the "world-famous authority on outer space..."

NASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of South Pole

"If you come up short with who comes down the ladder first, the impact is felt around the world."

Former NASA chief sounds alarm on China's lunar "exploration" plans

"Beijing's intended strategy is to dominate the high ground of the twenty-first century."

NASA chief: I'm only interested in "good deals" from international partners

"There was absolutely a time where we were trying to make everyone happy."

The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the first NASA observatory designed for in-space refueling.

NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy

NASA asks US states to show them the money.

Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument

Europe is looking inward, and perhaps to China, as the White House tries to cancel some NASA partnerships.

Artemis II commander and pilot become NASA's first astronaut emeriti

Wary of Artemis IV timeline, NASA is changing lunar spacesuit design

"Requirements are being adjusted to reflect near-term mission needs."

It turns out that Orion's much-maligned heat shield performed really well

Independent safety officials also have high praise for changes by NASA leadership.

Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program

NASA's cost estimate for SR-1 Freedom is $2.1 billion, but that doesn't include the helicopters.

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches to study dark matter and dark energy

After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one…

Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

Trump's space transportation policy calls for new spaceport on federal land

"We probably need another site that's capable of heavy and super heavy launch capability."

NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope

Plans to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory satellite from falling into Earth's atmosphere are seemingly dead in the water. The agency and Katalyst Spa…

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.