The Latest Breaking News from NASA

Scottish stargazers are in for a treat as the gas giant makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.

On September 26 at 11.15pm UTC, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in our Solar System. In other words, it will smash into an asteroid.

A new study suggests that some ancient lakes on Mars were more suitable to host living organisms, which could inform the search for life on Mars.

Jupiter will be some 367 million miles from Earth on Monday, the closest it's been since 1963. It coincides with Jupiter being on the opposite side of Earth from the sun — when it'll be its brightest.

Aim is to see whether space rocks can be deflected should one threaten humans with same fate as dinosaurs

Third delay in the past month for test flight as technical issues and weather hamper US effort to return to the moon after five decades

On Monday evening, a robotic NASA spacecraft is programmed to ram itself into a distant asteroid at 14,000 miles per hour in deep space to demonstrate the agency’s future ability to defend Earth from hazardous space rocks.

ORLANDO, Fla. — With the approaching threat of what is forecast to be Hurricane Ian, NASA finally threw in the towel for a launch attempt Tuesday of its Artemis I mission to the moon from Kennedy Space Center.

The launch was originally scheduled for Tuesday.