NASA vs SpaceX rockets compared on cost, technology, and performance, revealing how reusability and innovation reshape modern spaceflight missions.

NASA’s current call for feedback builds on its first integrated Civil Space Shortfall Ranking released in July 2024. The Space Technology Mission Directorate analyzed 187 technology shortfalls across 20 capability areas, drawing on 1,231 responses from NASA centers, government agencies, industry and academia.

Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit future deep space missions by completing a cold-flow test campaign of the first flight reactor engineering development unit since the 1960s.

NASA's decision to permit the use of smartphones in space signifies a major upgrade from the bulky, aging equipment previously utilized, such as DSLRs and GoPros. The agency will now allow astronauts to use current iPhone and Android devices,

NASA technology developed originally for use in space is employed in many everyday situations on Earth, including in your mattress foam.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II, astronauts will be able to take modern smartphones to space.

Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY-04), a member of the House Space, Science and Technology Committee, has secured an amendment to the NASA Reauthorization Act of 2026 to expand research and technology consortia in Nassau County and nationwide.

NASA on Feb. 12 selected Long Beach, California-based Vast to conduct its first private astronaut mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), slated to fly no earlier than summer 2027. Like Axiom Space, which has conducted four private astronaut missions to the ISS, Vast will rely on...