In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...

Astronauts Williams and Wilmore conducted a 5-hour, 26-minute spacewalk to remove radio hardware and collect samples on the ISS.

Iowa native Peggy Whitson will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame this spring, recognizing her near-four decades of work at NASA and her continued career at Axiom Space. Six-time shuttle ...

The four American astronauts aboard the ISS, including the Boeing Starliner crew, spoke to USA TODAY in an exclusive interview Tuesday.

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System — a global network of telescopes funded by NASA to find Earth-threatening ...

The Challenge, which was open to 6th to 12th graders in schools across the nation, asked teams to design experiments that ...

All of its crew perished, including Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. A former combat pilot in the Israeli Air Force, he ...

Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.