The X-59, the centerpiece of NASA's Quesst ("Quiet Supersonic Technology") program, is designed to generate mild thumps rather than clapping booms. If all goes to plan, the work it's doing now could help bring widespread supersonic flight back to the U.S.

NASA Images Show Fire Damage Across Santa Rosa Island, Raising Concerns for Rare Wildlife Habitat

Astronauts aboard the ISS were told by NASA to temporarily "assume an elevated safety posture" while their Russian counterparts worked to repair new leaks on the floating space laboratory.

A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station ‌prompted five astronauts to take shelter and prepare for evacuation for roughly two hours on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion of the orbital laboratory,

After six months of radio silence, NASA’s Maven spacecraft at Mars has been declared dead. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The space agency confirmed Wednesday that the mission had ended after more than a decade of observations.

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft was in excellent shape when it disappeared behind Mars on December 6 of last year. The routine passage, called an occultation, was supposed to last less than an hour, but ground teams didn’t hear from the spacecraft when it was supposed to regain contact with Earth.

Waste management in space has come a long way since the first moon missions. Back in the 1960s, NASA Apollo astronauts left behind 96 bags of human waste (filled with poop, urine, and vomit) on the lunar surface to save weight. Those bags are almost certainly still there.

NASA experts say the first lunar habitats may rely on inflatable shelters and adapted spacecraft rather than the bases imagined in science fiction