"It just doesn't make sense." Retired NASA scientist makes urgent plea as 'national asset' programs are on chopping block: 'This is really critical' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover stationed on Mars spotted a dome-shaped rock with a striking resemblance to a helmet used during ...

The race to build nuclear power on the moon, currently involving NASA and the Chinese space agency, is a strategic ...

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space.

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon... and those astronauts will get there ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look ...

The Trump administration wants to end two NASA missions that monitor a potent greenhouse gas and plant health.

NASA intern Thad Roberts concocted a plan to steal moon rocks, and he was successful. Was it a romantic gesture, or was he ...

Nearly five-month mission concludes as agency continues its human presence on the International Space Station.

The Mastcam-Z instrument, a pair of zoom-capable cameras on Perseverance's neck-like mast, allows scientists to capture ...