Space

The Senate's version of an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2018 includes funds for NASA's Earth science missions that are facing cancellation under President Donald Trump's FY 2018 budget...

Jeffrey DeWit The Senate confirmed Jeffrey DeWit, former treasurer of Arizona, as chief financial officer of NASA, SpacePolicyOnline.com reported Wednesday. Nominated to serve as CFO in December 2017, DeWit is...

Robert Lightfoot NASA Acting Administrator Robert Lightfoot plans to retire in April after a 29-year career at the space agency, Spaceflight Now reported Monday. He told agency employees in a memo, obtained...

NASA has chosen two research projects to build space instruments that will study Arctic warming and the effects of mineral dust on the atmosphere. The space agency said Tuesday it selected...

NASA engineers have completed structural qualification tests on the Space Launch System's core stage engine section at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. The rocket's four RS-25 engines and two solid rocket booster...

NASA plans to showcase an Orion stage adapter technology at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama before the space agency transfers the flight hardware to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The agency said...

James Reilly President Donald Trump intends to nominate James Reilly, a former NASA astronaut and current technical adviser at the U.S. Air Force's National Security Space Institute, as director of the U.S. Geological Survey....

NASA and the U.S. Navy have conducted another recovery test of an Orion test vehicle aboard the USS Anchorage amphibious transport dock. The Navy said Thursday the Underway Recovery Test-6 is meant...

NASA has released the 2018 edition of an annual publication that features 49 everyday-life technology applications with involvement from the space agency's research and development contributions. The Spinoff publication for...

NASA has said the 2019 budget request slated for release as soon as February will include details on how the space agency will implement a space policy directive involving a potential...