A giant telescope, galaxy maps, and laser beacons on Mars are only a few of the ideas that teams selected by NASA will study for the next generation of astronomy and astrophysics missions. NASA’s Jet ...

NASA’s new Mars helicopter rotors survived supersonic testing, boosting lift by 30% and paving the way for heavier, more capable aerial explorers on the Red Planet.

Barely nine months after the last cut, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will again reduce its workforce. On Wednesday, the lab will lay 325 employees off, representing about 5 percent of the workforce ...

The $4.3-billion observatory will aid the search for "Earth twins" and explore the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Monday announced that it will lay off about 550 employees, or about 11 percent of its workforce. According to JPL director Dave Gallagher, the move has ...

Peter Theisinger raised the IQ of any room he entered. The man considered a giant at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked on missions to six planets and landed three NASA rovers on Mars, has ...

The rover Perseverance carried the helicopter Ingenuity — the first helicopter to fly on another planet. This animated video visualizes the Mars 2020 mission, including the rover, helicopter ...

First motion is almost always a big event in the world of space exploration. Whether the first motion is of a wheel beginning to rotate or a rocket lifting off the pad, first motion means things are ...

We'll never heroically circle the moon on an Artemis mission, and watching our chunky interplanetary boot as it sinks into red dirt that is distinctly Martian must remain a daydream. But we can make ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the space observatory Roman Telescope launching at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...