NASA's newest class of astronauts includes two women with Arizona ties. NASA recognized 10 graduates at a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Tuesday. The graduates are now ...

NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Andre Douglas push a tool cart loaded with lunar tools through the San Francisco Volcanic Field north of Flagstaff, Arizona, as they practice moonwalking operations ...

Astronauts who return to the moon for the first time in half a century will have the unprecedented task of setting the stage for a permanent lunar base. But a planetary scientist at the University of ...

That's the reverse of the picture in Arizona as a whole, which brought in about $100 million in NASA contracts last fiscal year, ranking the state 15th nationwide. Nearly three-quarters of ...

The Near Earth Object Surveyor infrared telescope is moving toward its preliminary design phase, led by University of Arizona professor Amy Mainzer. NASA plans to launch the surveyor in 2026.

TUCSON, AZ — SOFIA is retiring in Arizona! NASA's SOFIA, which stands for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is now retired and heading to the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson.

PHOENIX — There is thought to be a metal asteroid in space called 16 Psyche, quite a change from an asteroid’s normal composition of rocky or icy bodies. The asteroid is considered to have a core ...

NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency’s prototype lunar rovers. The Desert RATS — or Research and Technology Studies — in the Arizona desert at Black ...