At the request of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, the National Academies will convene an ad hoc committee to examine various issues and lessons learned in the implementation of the Instrument and ...

When NASA’s Curiosity rover left Earth, its aluminum wheels were designed for sand, slopes and scattered stones, not a ...

When NASA set out to slam a spacecraft into a comet, the goal was not spectacle but data: a controlled impact that could peel back the outer layers of a primordial body and reveal what the early solar ...

In an exclusive interview with NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, he laid out the safety considerations of the mission.

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new autonomy and multitasking capabilities, it’s maximizing the output from its ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...