"Nasa" Blogs & Blog Posts

NASA is cutting its losses and scrapping its moon rover mission, after it proved to be exceedingly expensive and faced a series of delays.

NASA wants SpaceX to help end the International Space Station and push it into the ocean. They plan to do it with a superpowered Dragon spacecraft.

NASA is testing a new laser communication system to more efficiently send large amounts of data to and from space. In the time-honored tradition of the terrestrial internet, the first images sent were cats—actually cats, dogs, birds, chickens, cows...

Two years ago, NASA unveiled JWST's first space images. Take a look at how image processors turn raw telescope data into works of art.

The Pulsed Plasma Rocket could significantly shorten a round-trip to Mars, reduce risks to astronauts' health, and be ready to launch in 20 years.

Boeing's Starliner got two NASA astronauts to the space station despite failures. Now they're waiting to see if it can safely bring them home.

Four volunteers have spent the last 378 days in Mars Dune Alpha, a 1700-square-foot 3D-printed simulated Mars habitat. CHAPEA-1 is the first of three planned CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) missions designed to replicate a Mar...