What happens in Washington decidedly does not stay in Washington, with practically every action taken by the richest and most ...

NASA’s ambitious plan toexplore Europa, one of Jupiter’s most intriguing moons, has faced a significant setback. The agency ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA Less than two years after launch, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft experienced a glitch in its propulsion system that’s now jeopardizing ...

Europa and Enceladus ... robotic lander missions could be the only way to confirm if there’s really life in there or not. To make these lander missions happen, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

NASA will instead work to restructure Landsat Next in unspecified ways through a separate program, Sustainable Land Imaging. In Earth science, the budget proposes to cancel missions in the Earth ...

These recent tests complemented previous Flight Opportunities-supported testing aboard a lander testbed to advance earlier versions of their PSNDL prototypes. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space ...

Since 2020, NASA has been studying potential Europa Lander mission concepts. Now, a team of scientists has produced a prototype robotic system for exploring Jupiter’s moon. Their design integrates ...

NASA's Phoenix Mars lander touched down on the Red Planet on May 25, 2008, and spent 161 days (156 Martian days) collecting a variety of data, before suddenly going offline.

An artist's concept of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has completed initial commissioning of its ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS ...