The Latest Breaking News from NASA

ESA spacecraft orbiting Mars and monitoring the Sun are stepping in to track 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet hidden behind the Sun until December 2025, offering scientists a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity.

Scientists believe a moon of Uranus may have once had a subsurface ocean.

Two centuries after its completion, the Erie canal is celebrated from space, with NASA satellite imagery showing the engineering feat of this structure.

Over 80% of NASA's workforce is being told to stay home during the government shutdown.

NASA has reported possible biosignatures in a Mars rock, but delays and funding woes cloud its sample return mission. Could China's Tianwen-3 step in and deliver samples from the site itself?

What about those previously studied plumes of methane and meteorites potentially stuffed with the fossils of Martian microbes?

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure if the gas is contained within a wispy atmosphere or being ejected into space.

Mining the moon for helium-3: How real is the prospect, and is there a business case for such an undertaking?

Science, especially when conducted remotely on another planet, is rarely black and white.

Over 700 events are scheduled for International Observe the Moon Night 2025.

The first crewed flight around the Moon in over 50 years aims to build a lasting human presence on the lunar surface and lay the groundwork for future journeys to Mars.