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Statements from Rep. Jim Bridenstine and acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot on the U.S. Senate confirmation of Bridenstine as the 13th Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

In December 2017, President Donald J. Trump gave NASA a new direction, telling the agency to work with international and commercial partners to refocus exploration efforts on the moon, with an eye to eventually going on to Mars and even beyond.

Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon.

A 3-D infrared movie depicts cyclones and anticyclones in Jupiter's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo powering the magnetic field of a planet beyond Earth.

A mini-profile of citizen scientist Jason Major.

Meet some amateur scientists who made a mark on history.

On May 5, millions of Californians may witness the historic first interplanetary launch from America’s West Coast.

The launch of a Black Brant IX sounding rocket carrying the Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiment or ASPIRE was successfully conducted at 12:19 p.m. EDT, March 31, 2018, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

NASA is about to go on a journey to study the center of Mars. The space agency held a news conference today at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, detailing the next mission to the Red Planet.

Starting next year, scientists will get their first look deep below the surface of Mars.

The first interstellar object ever seen in our solar system, named ‘Oumuamua, is giving scientists a fresh perspective on the development of planetary systems.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet.