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Astronauts serving on the International Space Station understand how hard it is to be away from family during the holidays.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket propelled three NASA astronauts and one astronaut from JAXA to the International Space Station, launching Crew-1 into history.

Today, U.S. law requires a pressure gauge on every car tire, alerting drivers whenever the pressure is off!

American rockets, American spacecraft, American soil. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is enabling safe, reliable, and cost-effective crew transportation to and from the International Space Station.

Astronauts on a recent spacewalk installed the Robotic Tool Stowage, a protective storage unit for robotic tools.

Meteorites are like history books that fall from the sky and deliver chemical information about the early solar system.

NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System, a fully interactive web application, visualizes the same trajectory data the navigation team at JPL uses to plot Perseverance’s course to Mars.

No one understands isolation better than the astronauts who have successfully lived on the International Space Station for days, weeks, and months over the past 20 years.

The bright red WORM logo is back in action as NASA is headed back to the Moon.

NASA’s new water-hunting rover, VIPER, will need some powerful headlights to shine a spotlight on the Moon.

To study this mysterious ocean world, NASA has selected Dragonfly as part of the agency’s New Frontiers Program.

Each year Americans celebrate Veteran’s Day on November 11th. While the date marks the anniversary of the end of World War I, the day honors everyone who served or is serving in the U.S. armed forces. And many of our NASA astronauts belong to that group.

Thanks to a new oven being tested on station, astronauts got to enjoy the smell of fresh baked cookies in space.

For 20 years, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have conducted science in a way that cannot be done anywhere else.

The FAA is researching ways to use unmanned aircraft and the equipment to control them remotely for a number of critical airport applications.

If MOXIE lives up to its name, future oxygen generators 100 times larger could support human missions on other worlds.

Research at the SLOPE Lab helps NASA develop the tools and technologies that will allow rovers to explore the surfaces of the Moon and Mars.

What does a well-dressed astronaut wear to the Red Planet?

The space environment lacks many of the sensory inputs we take for granted on Earth.

Every Halloween, astronauts onboard the International Space Station find a little time in their busy schedules to dress up and have some fun.