SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even the JWST can't exactly do.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Musk, will be tasked with retrieving two NASA astronauts who have been stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) since June 2024.

The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires spread quickly due to dry conditions and strong winds from the east that blew the fires across the city and kickstarted new blazes.

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world.

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

NASA astronaut Suni Williams set a female spacewalk record after venturing outside the International Space Station with fellow Boeing Starliner crew member.

Milestones like Sierra Space’s Joint Test 10B are needed to confirm Dream Chaser’s “ability to handle specialized payloads such as vital scientific research,” Pablo Gonzalez, Sierra Space Vice President of Crew and Cargo Transportation Systems, said in a statement earlier this week.

The IM-2 mission will test lunar mobility, resource prospecting and the first-ever cellular network on the moon.