Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) can now breathe a collective sigh of relief. After a year-long delay, the lab’s Psyche mission finally launched in October to visit a metal-rich ...

NASA's troubled Mars sample-return program may have a new lifeline, in the form of a proposal from private space company Rocket Lab to help save the mission. However, while Perseverance has been ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today announced it will launch NASA’s TROPICS ...

NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Aspera smallsat mission, which will study gases in the vast regions of space between galaxies. “As a long-trusted launch partner for NASA’s most pioneering ...

A Rocket Lab Electron lifts off May 7 carrying two NASA TROPICS cubesats. Credit: Rocket Lab webcast WASHINGTON — A Rocket Lab Electron launched a pair of NASA cubesats designed to monitor the ...

NASA has found a new launch provider for its extreme weather observation satellites. The agency announced Wednesday that it has selected Rocket Lab to launch its Time-Resolved Observations of ...

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab”, or “the Company”), a leading launch and space systems company, today revealed it has selected NASA’s historic ...

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, two big missions got snagged on workforce issues Scientists operate a copy of a Mars rover within the Mars Yard at the Jet ...

Rocket Lab is preparing for the first launch of its Electron rocket from LC-2 in Virginia in December. That site will host two Electron launches next year to deploy NASA's TROPICS satellites. Credit: ...

Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to ...

Nearly a decade ago, a dark horse space mining operation by the name of Moon Express floated an outrageous idea: Build a spaceship, send it to the moon, collect moon rocks, ship them back to Earth ...

Even NASA is not immune to layoffs. The agency says it's cutting around 530 employees from its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California amid budget uncertainty. That's eight percent of the ...