In the United States, NASA's science programs are facing historic funding cuts. A new proposed federal budget slashes the ...

NASA has been studying the effects of space on human health for over 50 years, focusing on how zero gravity, lack of fresh ...

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

NASA is offering $3 million in a competition to recycle waste in space, called the LunaRecycle challenge. A two track, two-phase competition open to anyone on the globe-- focusing on the design ...

Dan Weedman was a senior official at NASA and the National Science Foundation from 1992-2002, including serving as the head ...

However, looming challenges to science right now are not in the laboratory or field. ... As we speak, NASA is monitoring an asteroid that could impact our planet in 2032.

The 25th annual Student Launch Challenge is one of NASA's Artemis Student Challenges, meant to encourage students in the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, fields.

The Planetary Society, a nonprofit advocacy group for space science, estimates that 41 current or planned missions, roughly a third of NASA’s portfolio, would be terminated if the Trump budget ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if the cache can make it back in the 2030s.

Graduate and undergraduate students at three university-led teams will try to solve aviation challenges and improve flight in the 21st century, NASA announced on Tuesday.

These are just a few of the challenges that humans face in outer space. Emily and Regina talk to a NASA astronaut (and astronaut scientist) about the impact of spaceflight on the human body.