As a writer for the NASA Web site’s students’ and educators’ pages, Heather Smith has written quite a few stories about students and teachers flying experiments on NASA’s reduced-gravity aircraft. Now ...

MAVEN was conducting routine operations, passing behind Mars in its normal orbit, when the communication failure occurred. It’s not uncommon for spacecraft to lose contact when they pass behind a ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability ...

Researchers are turning to satellite data to monitor the world’s longest bridges. Due to high costs and logistical challenges, fewer than 1 in 5 bridges extending 492 feet (150 meters) or more have ...

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NASA’s Perseverance rover is continuing its critical mission to explore the Martian surface, with its recent study of dormant megaripples providing exciting new insights into the Red Planet’s ...

Live updates from NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 astronaut liftoff aboard a Falcon 9 rocket Friday, Feb. 13, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.