WASHINGTON — NASA has canceled a multibillion-dollar project to demonstrate satellite servicing technologies that had suffered extensive delays and cost overruns. In a brief statement...

The first direct observation of water on the surface of an asteroid has been made using an airborne near-infrared telescope. Water was detected on...

SAN FRANCISCO – Relative Dynamics, a Maryland startup focused on engineering services and optical communications technology development, is growing rapidly thanks to recent government...

From the oceans to the atmosphere, there’s still quite a bit we don’t understand about our planet. NASA’s latest Earth-observing spacecraft hopes to greatly...

All organisms are made of living cells. While it is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the first cells came to exist, geologists’ best estimates...

To describe Federico Capasso at Harvard University as a prolific researcher is an understatement and I have been following his work in photonics for...

WASHINGTON — As NASA prepares for the first launch of a commercial lunar lander carrying agency-sponsored payloads, it is trying to balance the science...

There are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign, by their preferred choice...

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress are asking NASA not to slow down work on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program now while also lobbying...

The first payload teed up for NASA’s industry-led missions to the Moon has arrived in Florida. Astrobotic announced on Halloween that its Peregrine lunar...

The next decade will be a critical time for the exploration of Mars with the multi-agency Mars Sample Return (MSR) being the marquee mission....

As the new space race ramps up and humanity looks to deep space and potentially life as an interstellar species, the United States National...