Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch.

Kepler will collaborate with NASA on current and future on-orbit capabilities that provide meaningful demonstrations of key NASA mission use cases. “The hybrid architecture of our optical ...

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The mobile robot was due to conduct a 100-day mission to map lunar ice and use a 1-meter drill to detect and analyze these ice deposits. It would’ve been NASA’s first resource-mapping mission ...

as happened with the Kepler Space Telescope. The Mars InSight lander’s solar panels were too caked in dust by 2022 to continue operation. NASA / JPL-Caltech Sometimes, a mission is no longer ...

The NASA Kepler is already decommissioned by NASA, and the decades-old space telescope has brought a lot of discoveries on its daring missions to look for exoplanets all around the universe.

The NASA Orion spacecraft, the core of the Artemis I mission, is making a farewell pass by the moon on its historic journey before heading home to Earth. The capsule, which has spent the past 15 ...

"Just when you think you've got it all figured out, nature gives you a huge surprise -- in this case, literally," Kepler mission scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center Natalie Batalha said in a ...

Kepler was an orbiter craft launched on March 7, 2009 (via NASA). The primary purpose of this spacecraft was to discover and observe exoplanets that are within the Milky Way galaxy. Exoplanets ...

After spending two-and-a-half years together, a NASA spacecraft bid farewell to its asteroid companion Monday and began the long journey back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is NASA’s first ...

All good things must come to an end, on Earth and even in space. NASA announced on Tuesday that the Kepler mission — which has transformed how we understand planets outside of our solar system ...

The final image from the Kepler Space Telescope has arrived. After nearly a decade of operation, NASA’s groundbreaking ... just a few years into its first mission, requiring engineers to develop ...