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Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

US astronaut moon landing 'not feasible,' by 2024, NASA's inspector general finds

By Chelsea Gohd

Because of anticipated delays in spacesuit development, it is "not feasible" for NASA to land humans on the moon by the agency's hopeful deadline of 2024, a report has found.

An artist's depiction of Parker Solar Probe studying the sun.

NASA sun spacecraft whizzes through 9th solar flyby

By Meghan Bartels

NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works.

Artist's illustration of NASA's asteroid-hunting NEO Surveyor spacecraft in space.

NASA asteroid-hunting satellite clears hurdle on path to 2026 launch

By Mike Wall

NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move into "preliminary design," its next phase of development on the road to a planned liftoff in 2026.

The International Space Station.

Russia threatens to leave International Space Station program over US sanctions: reports

By Elizabeth Howell

Russia's space chief is threatening to leave the International Space Station program in 2025 unless the United States lifts sanctions against the Russian space sector.

A conservator uses a vacuum to clean inside Freedom 7, the first Mercury capsule to carry a U.S. astronaut into space 60 years ago, in the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

Smithsonian inspects first US astronaut's space capsule, suit 60 years on

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Conservators have spruced up Alan Shepard's spacesuit and Mercury capsule.

NASA's Artemis program is working to put boots back on the moon by 2024 and establish a permanent presence there by the end of the decade.

NASA to land 1st person of color on the moon with Artemis program

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA will land the first person of color in addition to the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program, NASA's Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk revealed today (April 9).

3D rendering of the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter explore Mars against the backdrop of a real Martian landscape

Piece of Wright brothers' 1st plane now on Mars

By Nicoletta Lanese

Fabric from the plane is secured to NASA's experimental Mars helicopter.

The Space Launch System's engines wobbled dramatically during the static fire test, but did not trigger an abord. A small fire is visible in the upper right corner, where NASA says some tape ignited.

NASA tested its new moon rocket in Mississippi, and it only caught on fire a little bit

By Rafi Letzter

NASA conducted its second major test of its powerful new moon rocket, the Space Launch System, and it was mostly a success.

An illustration shows what a moon base might look like.

China and Russia say they will join forces to build moon base

By Rafi Letzter

Two of the world's most powerful spacefaring nations are teaming up for their most ambitious project yet: a Chinese-Russian research station on the moon.

Gavin Schmidt will serve as acting senior climate advisor at NASA.

NASA appoints climate advisor to prioritize Earth science in Biden administration

By Meghan Bartels

Tackling the climate crisis is one of President Joe Biden's top priorities, and NASA has created a new role to match.

Target Earth: This illustration shows a space rock approaching Earth, perhaps headed for destructive impact on our world.

Defending Earth against dangerous asteroids: Q&A with NASA's Lindley Johnson

By Leonard David

Space.com caught up with NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson to discuss recent events and what's on the planetary-defense agenda in the coming year.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft lift off for the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station.

SpaceX Crew Dragon launches 4 astronauts to space station in historic flight

By Amy Thompson

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule launched its first operational space taxi flight for NASA Sunday (Nov. 15).

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi will fly on SpaceX's CREW-1 mission.

SpaceX set to launch first fully-crewed ISS mission Saturday

By Rafi Letzter

We're likely just days away from the first fully-crewed SpaceX launch, after SpaceX fixed engine problems that cropped up in October.

NASA astronaut Charles Duke filmed Commander John Young as Young drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle, in footage shot on April 21, 1972 during the fifth day of the Apollo 16 moon landing.

Astonishing AI restoration brings Apollo moon landing films up to speed

By Mindy Weisberger

Artificial intelligence transformed NASA footage of Apollo missions to the moon, making decades-old events look like they were shot on high-definition video.

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying the Cygnus NG-14 cargo ship launches toward the International Space Station from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia on Oct. 2, 2020.

New space toilet reaches the final frontier

By Chelsea Gohd

A robotic Cygnus spacecraft successfully blasted off from Virginia today (Oct. 1) carrying nearly 4 tons of gear, including a new space toilet, to the International Space Station.

NASA's Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1, or OGO-1, is seen in orbit on Aug. 25, 2020. The satellite launched in September 1964 and fell to Earth on Aug. 29, 2020.

Vintage NASA satellite falls to Earth, meets fiery doom after 56 years in space

By Meghan Bartels

A long-retired NASA satellite burned up in Earth's atmosphere over the weekend, the agency has confirmed.

This image of planetary nebula NGC 2392 (whose previously racist nicknamed was removed by NASA) is depicted in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, released July 11, 2013.

NASA to stop using racist nicknames for cosmic objects

By Doris Elin Salazar

NASA will discontinue the use of certain nicknames for astronomical objects that are considered to be racist, the space agency said Aug. 5.

President Donald Trump speaks inside the Vehicle Assembly Building following the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Trump says 'NASA was Closed & Dead' before he took charge. That's not true.

By Chelsea Gohd

President Donald Trump took to Twitter Wednesday (Aug. 5) to announce that he brought NASA back from being "Closed & Dead."

The proposed telescope would be a 1km-diameter wire-mesh that can gaze out into the cosmos without being hindered by the Earth's atmosphere.

NASA funds proposal to build a telescope on the far side of the moon

By Yasemin Saplakoglu

This proposed mesh telescope would let us gaze out into the dark cosmos, unhindered by our planet's atmosphere and radio interferences.

This image, taken Jan. 8, shows the newfound asteroid 2020 AV2, which orbits the sun closer than Venus does.

This Newly Discovered Asteroid Is the Second-Closest Natural Object to the Sun

By Laura Geggel

Excluding Mercury, this newly discovered asteroid has the smallest known aphelion distance in our entire solar system.