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NASA turns to Rocket Lab for dual space missions set to transform climate and solar research

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch two scientific missions aimed at improving understanding of the Sun’s energy and Earth ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals 16.5 million stars inside the Cigar Galaxy

A galaxy seen almost edge-on, wrapped in thick lanes of dust and glowing with unusually intense star formation, has long ...

Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...
Science Mission Directorate

NASA’s Next Generation Telescope Arrives in Florida Ahead of Launch

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived June 21, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the start ...
SpaceNews

NASA selects mission to study space weather interaction with Earth’s atmosphere

NASA has selected for development a space science mission that will study how space weather interacts with Earth’s atmosphere ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is creating one of the weirdest forms of matter in space

NASA’s upgraded Cold Atom Lab is turning the International Space Station into a frontier for quantum research, creating ultra ...

NASA taps Relativity Space for Mars science mission to launch from Cape Canaveral

NASA tapped commercial company Relativity Space to fly its next big Mars science project, which aims to help better protect ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope arrives at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a late summer launch. See the ...

Put your name aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

An illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The NASA observatory was designed to settle essential questions in ...
PRIMETIMER

NASA and Relativity Space join forces to launch a Mars science mission in 2028

NASA announced the partnership on June 17, 2026. Chief Jared Isaacman called it a "force multiplier" during an event at ...

How NASA taught four astronauts to read the moon

How do you teach someone to look at the moon? Not glance at it, the way we all have on a clear night, but truly read it, the way a geologist reads a hillside. That was the challenge NASA set itself ...

“I’ll buy 10 of those”—NASA science chief yearns for mass-produced satellites

So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary science missions than it did a quarter-century ago? The answer is complex. It is not necessarily the money. The space agency’s science budget ...