NASA said Sept. 20 it selected a crater near the lunar south pole as the landing site for a rover called VIPER that will look for water ice at and below the surface. Credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter ...

DUSTER instrument and SPSS seismic station will be “emplaced by human explorers on the Moon to achieve science goals,” which ...

NASA may be considering revisiting one of its previous Moon landing sites, according to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. The Artemis missions will include crewed trips to the lunar surface, but ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has taken its closest look yet at a potential sample site on asteroid Bennu. The probe has been orbiting the asteroid since 2018 and has been preparing to collect a chunk ...

NASA is trying to have the entire contaminated Santa Susana Field Laboratory designated a cultural district, an effort cleanup activists allege is an attempt by the agency to get out of remediating ...

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NASA's Prime-1 ice-driller will ride an Intuitive Machines Nova-C lander to the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA has ...

An international spacecraft that will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC-D ...