Fast forward to the present day. The Space Launch System has flown only once, during the Artemis I mission, and is preparing to fly again with Artemis II. According to the NASA Office of Inspector General, the Space Launch System costs $4 billion per flight, not to speak of the immense amount of money to develop the rocket.

Then-NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro speaking at the 40th Space Symposium April 8. Credit: Tom Kimmell Photography WASHINGTON — NASA’s acting administrator expects to decide on a new “top-level” structure for the agency within weeks, but a ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued slightly red, and almost completely surrounded by carved ...

STRIVE seeks to take measurements from the upper troposphere to the mesosphere while EDGE seeks to make glacier, and ice observations.

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

NASA is targeting March 6 as the earliest launch date for Artemis II’s journey to the Moon after what the agency describes as a successful wet dress rehearsal this week. Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator,