The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft ...

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

Due to the prohibitive costs of maintaining a launch vehicle that is not being actively used, NASA does not have any dedicated ‘rescue rockets’ as an alternative. NASA uses its contingency plan to ...

A group of New York City students had a few questions for NASA astronauts, and Wednesday, they got answers all the way from space.

Mission Control will be packed with experts, specialists and flight directors around-the-clock as NASA takes on its most ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An old NASA science satellite plunged uncontrolled from orbit and reentered over the Pacific on ...

One of NASA’s spacecraft could reenter the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 P.M. EDT tonight. When the 600-kilogram Van Allen Probe A reenters Earth’s atmosphere, it will largely burn up, but there ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

Van Allen Probe A was originally designed for just a two-year mission ...