Space Exploration

Budgetary issues have forced the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA's chief center for robotic planetary exploration, to reduce its workforce by about 8%.

AI continues to prove successful as an important tool for fire weather forecasters, both with thunderstorm prediction and increasing situational awareness for active fires caused by lightning.

SpaceX is targeting Feb. 14 for the launch of Intuitive Machine's IM-1 mission, which aims to become the first private effort to soft-land on the moon.

Thanks to a powerful engine burn on Feb. 3, NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy spacecraft is on its way back to Earth for a Christmas-time rendezvous this year.

During its second close rendezvous with Jupiter's volcanic moon, NASA's Juno spacecraft collected some amazing images of the scene.

Virgin Galactic informed the FAA that the mothership of its space plane VSS Unity lost a piece of hardware on its most recent suborbital flight.

On Feb. 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard became the first person to hit a golf ball on the moon.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has now racked up more than 879 days in space, breaking the record for most time spent off Earth.

NASA experts spoke ahead of the launch of the ocean and atmosphere studying spacecraft PACE from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station early on Feb. 8.

NASA's Perseverance Rover took a photo of its broken companion, the Ingenuity helicopter, as it sat motionless on a dune on Feb. 4.