NASA audit puts Boeing's Starliner under an even bigger microscope: When will it fly astronauts again?

A new NASA audit says the agency will need to purchase more astronaut flights to the ISS by 2030 and focuses on issues with ...

NASA inspector general suggests Boeing’s Starliner will now be a decade late

NASA’s inspector general released an audit Tuesday of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, and it looks increasingly likely ...

NASA Is Paying SpaceX $843 Million to Build a Machine Whose Only Job Is to Destroy Space Station

NASA awarded SpaceX an $843 million contract to build a deorbit vehicle that will safely destroy the International Space ...
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NASA’s landmark year of exploration and innovation

In 2024, NASA advanced an extraordinary range of missions across human spaceflight, planetary science, Earth observation, ...
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Milestones defining space exploration in 2024

In February 2024, a landmark achievement marked the first U.S. moon landing in over half a century. The Odysseus lunar lander ...
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NASA’s exciting 2024 began with a crash that ended a historic mission

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, right, stands near the apex of a sand ripple in an image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24, 2024, about five weeks after the rotorcraft’s final flight. Part of one of ...
Phys.org

NASA's stuck astronauts hit 6 months in space. Just 2 more to go

Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go. The pair rocketed into orbit on June 5, the first to ride ...
Newsweek

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Update: Scientists Say ‘City Killer’ No Threat to Earth

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists have officially ruled out any threat from a newly discovered ...
New York Magazine

Congratulations, You Probably Won’t Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2032

A recently spotted space rock that had suddenly climbed atop astronomers’ threat lists is now predicted to remain just another random rock traveling through space. On February 7, NASA’s Center for ...
Newsweek

NASA Issues Update on Chance of Asteroid Hitting Earth

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The odds of the 2024 YR4 asteroid hitting the Earth have increased from ...

KSC’s canceled Artemis launch tower would have cost $2 billion, NASA audit says

NASA’s recent cancellations of four Artemis programs — including the mobile launcher 2 tower that was constructed at Kennedy Space Center — were projected to cost the agency billions more if they had ...
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Temperatures rising: NASA confirms 2024 warmest year on record

Earth's average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists. Global temperatures in 2024 were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit (1.28 degrees Celsius) ...