The team recently conducted a site preparation test using its counterrotating bucket drums to dig into simulated lunar dust and build a three-foot berm.

Ben Burdess, mechanical engineer at NASA Kennedy, observes RASSOR's counterrotating drums digging up the lunar dust and creating a three-foot berm.

At the Kennedy Space Center, a new robot shovels up manufactured lunar dust as part of a larger test.

Breathtaking space pictures from NASAThe Cygnus Loop, also called the Veil Nebula, is what’s left of a star that exploded.

Society NASA is facing the biggest crisis in its history Widespread proposed budget cuts have left the US space agency facing an uncertain future at the same time as NASA’s intended new leader ...

When the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its top-level budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 on May 2, NASA and the space industry feared the worst. Leaks of an OMB ...

A space station research conference has been canceled and the future of a planetary science conference is in doubt as NASA pulls back support for them.

NASA scientists are in a state of anxious limbo after the Trump administration proposed a budget that would eliminate the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies as a standalone entity.

If President Trump cancels the contracts for Elon Musk’s private spaceflight company, the federal government would struggle to achieve many goals in orbit and beyond.

NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has captured a breathtaking image. The image shows Arsia Mons, a massive Martian volcano. The volcano is seen piercing ...