Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Friday, Feb. 13, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission. Original story: The countdown is underway: NASA and SpaceX crews are gearing up for Cape ...

Officials have directed the space agency to pause funds for a host of science missions the White House originally pushed to cancel in its 2026 budget request, according to a letter sent to the agency’s centers from NASA headquarters and obtained by POLITICO.

As it swept past the Sun and Earth, the object left behind more than a glowing trail. An unusual scientific opportunity American researchers studying observations from NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope say the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS discharged significant quantities of organic compounds during its close approach to Earth in late 2025.

NASA has let Axiom Space make four visits to the International Space Station and last month awarded it the right for the fifth visit next year, but on Thursday the agency announced a new company

To avoid Swift being dragged down low enough to hit Earth’s atmosphere, NASA tapped an Arizona-based startup to launch a rescue mission. Late last year, NASA awarded Katalyst Space Technologies $30 million to develop a spacecraft designed to boost Swift’s orbit.

Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the coming weeks. The mission will be the first crewed mission to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, with the four-person crew expected to travel farther than any other human mission in spaceflight history.

Two new satellite missions will help NASA scientists better understand Earth and improve the ability to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters. And the agency says they’ll be

NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission will be an eight-month-long mission ivolving variety of science experiments to research on future Moon and Mars missions.

Anticipated summer launch is cutting it fine NASA has ended most science operations on its Swift observatory to keep the spacecraft in orbit a little longer.… The 21-year-old observatory's altitude has now dropped below 250 miles (400 kilometers) - it needs to sit above 185 miles (about 300 kilometers) to maximize the chances of an anticipated reboost mission.