NASA has selected the Centaur upper stage currently used on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket for future flights of the Space Launch System.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation announced that it passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2026, which extends the operations of the International ...

NASA Wallops Flight Facility provided tracking, telemetry, and range safety support for Rocket Lab’s HASTE suborbital Cassowary Vex launch, enabling a hypersonic test flight for the Defense Innovation ...

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 ...

A new NASA authorization bill moving through the U.S. Senate would extend the International Space Station’s life among other ...

Overall, Didymos is nearly 200 times more massive than its smaller companion, which explains why shifting the larger asteroid ...

NASA is reportedly considering replacing the planned upper stage of its Space Launch System with hardware derived from United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket, a change that could alter the ...

A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of ...

Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their ...