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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has just hit a milestone — for the longest distance traveled by an off-Earth vehicle.

The two missions, falling under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, will switch roles onboard the ISS before Crew-12 will fly back to Earth.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch this weekend, may shed new light on the nature of dark energy -- that mysterious force causing the universe to expand.

Two senators from Texas want to move the Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian in Virginia to Houston. NPR's David Folkenflik talks with activist Joe Stief of the group Keep The Shuttle.

NASA has named the crew of next year's Artemis III mission. The four astronauts will orbit the Earth and practice rendezvous techniques and other tasks to simulate skills needed for a lunar landing.

Coming on the heels of the historic mission around the moon and back earlier this year—which brought the first woman in lunar territory—NASA has picked a racially diverse albeit all-male crew for next year’s mission in low Earth orbit.

A scientific instrument on the Voyager 1 has been shut off to conserve power as the probe continues its interstellar exploration.

The Artemis II astronauts are readjusting to life on Earth after their historic mission around the moon.

As NASA’s Artimis ll is orbiting around the moon and will soon head back to Earth, there are lots of questions about what is next for humanity and space exploration. A permanent moon base is planned and then explorations of Mars. But how realistic are these ambitious plans?

Retired Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut Eileen Collins and filmmaker Hannah Berryman talk about the new documentary Spacewoman.