Congress is pushing to extend the International Space Station's life by two years, to give commercial outposts more time to ...

The star astrophysicist sat down with Newsweek to discuss Mars missions and what truly drives human discovery.

Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and steadily began to spread its reach from the tidal pools to the oceans to ...

As the human race looks toward a future of space exploration and perhaps even colonization, one new discovery sheds light on a potential challenge. Traveling and being in space changes the shape of an ...

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.

The STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. Credit: NASA / Courtesy Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s morning newsletter for ...

Since Viking 1 landed in 1976, humans have studied Mars from afar, relying on rovers and orbiters to analyze the planet. But with NASA planning a human mission as early as the 2030s, that will soon ...

Vast has raised $500 million in new funding, which the California startup will put toward its goal of getting private space ...

NASA could soon be scrambling to shore up the U.S.’s presence in low-Earth orbit, thanks to a key Senate committee that wants the space agency to extend the life of the International Space Station ...

Building bridges between academia and industry to enable exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Purdue University is a leading institution in space exploration, including human spaceflight, ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Prioritizations and Rankings to Optimize and Enable the Expansion of Deep Space Human Exploration." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. A Midterm ...