Miniature organs being sent into space for the very first time may soon help scientists understand how spaceflight impacts certain organs and may accelerate aging.

That idea is now off the table. On Friday, Oct. 9, NASA released its final call for private companies to build and run the station that replaces the ISS, and the agency intends to be a paying tenant rather than the landlord. The bids will tell you a lot about whether the commercial space economy can stand on its own.

NASA astronaut and engineer Christina Koch will become the agency’s acting deputy chief engineer Nov. 1, bringing experience from two spaceflights and from a career developing and operating complex systems in some of the world’s most demanding environments.

From the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics to NC State and a record-setting career in space, astronaut Christina Koch will draw on her engineering spaceflight experience as she becomes NASA’s acting deputy chief engineer.

NASA is preparing to explore deep craters on the moon, known as the Marius Hills pit, to determine if ancient underground caves could provide shelter for future astronauts.

The International Space Station has been operating for decades, but a persistent air leak in its Russian section has become a growing concern. Engineers have investigated the problem since 2019, with reported air-loss rates increasing significantly during 2024.

The Falcon 9 carrying NASA’s IMAP mission transits the disk of the Sun seconds after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. Update: Launch occurred at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 UTC). With successful payload deployments ...

Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at the space station, conducting spacewalks, science experiments and research.

NASA and China are preparing for a new space race, and both are focused on one of the Moon's most challenging regions: the south pole. Near Shackleton Crater, scientists believe permanently shadowed areas could contain water ice,

The $4 billion observatory is on a million-mile journey to an orbit beyond the moon. Its five-year mission is to study dark matter and hunt for habitable worlds outside our solar system. The telescope's field of view is 100 times wider than Hubble's ...

NASA targets commercial space with a higher volatility and expense ratio, while JETS offers established airline exposure with lower costs and a dividend.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just broke the record for the farthest distance traveled by any vehicle on another world.