Laurie Leshin announced today (May 7) that she'll step down from her role as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

It seems too good to be true, but UK-based Pulsar Fusion has revealed its new Sunbird self-contained nuclear rocket tug that ...

When you put your hand out the window of a moving car, you feel a force pushing against you called drag. This force opposes a ...

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

When the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were released in 2022, one in particular became instantly iconic: a striking orange and blue view of the Carina Nebula, affectionately known ...

On Tuesday (April 29), NASA announced that its Psyche probe has suffered a setback concerning its propulsion system while nearly 150 million miles (238 million kilometers) from our planet.

NASA’s Psyche mission, which aims to explore the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, has hit a snag on its journey. As reported in a ...

The space-based observatory, launched at the end of March, released its first set of images, in which a cloud of dust ...

Despite the overall reduction, NASA human space exploration initiatives would receive a $647 million increase in the proposed ...

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

NASA has confirmed that operations have begun for its latest space observatory, which is tasked with snapping 3,600 images of ...