Future Mars astronauts won't have to carry all their water from Earth.

Spotting signs of long-dead life is a tall order for a lonely robot on a faraway world, but NASA's next Mars rover should be up to the challenge, mission team members said.

ASA recruits a diverse array of scientists to study our planet and our universe. But one female research assistant, based in Pasadena, California, has a rather unusual resume and bio.

NASA is going to be sending something it calls a “robot hotel” to the International Space Station aboard the next commercial resupply mission, which is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week. The robot hotel is more formally known as the “Robotic Tool Stowage̶…

Astronomers have spotted a huge stellar black hole in our galaxy, many times bigger than ever thought possible. Scientists thought that such black holes could only reach about 20 times the mass of the Sun. But the newly discovered object is 70 times great, astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say.

Government oversight officials issued a scathing report about delays in NASA's commercial crew program, warning that Boeing and SpaceX are facing "significant safety and technical challenges" with their spacecraft — which could leave NASA astronauts stranded on the ground next year.

Engineers plan to collect rocks on Mars and bring samples to Earth, in one of the most complex robot space projects envisaged. The scheme, being developed by Nasa and the European Space Agency (Esa), will involve robot rovers finding rocks that might contain evidence of past life.

NASA's Inspector General (IG) predicts that the US will have to spend $90 million per seat for flights on the CST-100 Starliner, a spacecraft currently being constructed by Boeing

Sure, NASA gives away digital files for free, but the auction house is currently selling some of its original prints.

NASA just appointed a new leader for its human spaceflight program, and he’s dead set on making sure the agency puts astronauts on the moon in 2024.

Luckily, Voyager 2's instruments are in somewhat better shape than Voyager 1's, so scientists were able to observe the transition from the heliosphere, which is dominated by the sun, to the interstellar medium (ISM). 

They don't know why levels are spiking and dropping.

The European Space Agency has officially confirmed a mission designed to help humanity work out how to protect Earth from the danger posed by apocalypse asteroids. Space ministers from European nations gathered at a conference called Space19+ in Seville, Spain, where they approved the Hera asteroid mission, which will send spacecraft to a space rock called Didymos – a binary asteroid made up of two objects orbiting each other.

We may be on the brink of a new gold rush, but not here on Earth. An asteroid made entirely of metal is the subject of a future NASA mission that may allow us to understand more about the Earth’s core and how planets formed. 16 Psyche is a massive asteroid that is particularly interesting due to its metallic composition, which has caused some people to speculate about its potential value.

By 2029, we could have human footprints on Mars, an established base on the moon and maybe even know which worlds beyond ours host life. It's all science fiction right now, but when we look at how far we've come in the past 10 years it suddenly seems less far-fetched.

"Transparency for the taxpayer."

The unexpected discovery has major implications for long-duration space missions, including trips to Mars.

NASA has added five companies to the list of vendors that are cleared to bid on contracts for the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. This list, which already includes nine companies from a previous selection process, now adds SpaceX, Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, Sierra Nevada Corporation and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. All of these companies can now place bids on NASA payload delivery to the lunar surface.

The chopper aims to be the first aircraft to take flight on another planet.

Scientists are working with powerful space telescopes from NASA, as well as other observatories, to track down far-flung objects that fit the description of "intermediate-mass black holes."