February 18, 2021 NASA's Perseverance rover streaks toward a landing on Mars A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
February 4, 2021 White House voices support for moon exploration by 2024, after concerns Biden would nix Artemis Program White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday voiced support for NASA's Artemis Program, which aims to land the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024.
January 21, 2021 Buzz Aldrin receives first COVID-19 shot, urges Americans to vaccinate 'as soon as possible' Astronaut Buzz Aldrin received the first shot of the coronavirus vaccine just days before his 91st birthday, and he urged more Americans to follow his example.
January 16, 2021 NASA test for 'most powerful rocket in the world' has component failure NASA conducted a hot fire of the core stage of the Space Launch System, but the stage’s four main engines shut down just over one minute into a test designed to last eight minutes.
January 15, 2021 NASA finds an alien planet with 3 suns NASA has discovered an exoplanet with three stars, one with a bizarre orbit that has left astronomers baffled.
January 14, 2021 NASA finds there are fewer galaxies than first thought, leaving the possibility we're alone in the universe A mission from NASA has discovered there may be a lot fewer galaxies than initially believed, opening up the possibility humanity is alone in the universe.
January 13, 2021 NASA Curiosity rover has spent 3,000 days on Mars — here are some of its greatest achievements NASA's Curiosity rover just celebrated its 3,000th day on Mars by taking a remarkable picture of the Red Planet.
January 13, 2021 NASA helps cement plan to return to the moon Though NASA may have trouble returning to the moon by 2024, the U.S. space agency is doing what it can to eventually explore the lunar surface, announcing a formal partnership with Japan for the lunar Gateway.
January 12, 2021 SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft is on its way back to Earth, set to splashdown off Florida SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station Tuesday morning and is set to splashdown off the coast of Florida Wednesday.
January 12, 2021 Strange FM signal discovered coming from one of Jupiter's moons NASA recently extended the life of two of its planetary discovery missions, including the Juno mission to Jupiter. Now it's come to light Juno has discovered an FM signal emanating from one of the gas giant's moons, Ganymede.