The Van Allen probe's mission was meant to last two years, but ended up going for nearly seven.

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

HOUSTON—A Senate panel on March 12 voted in favor of President Trump’s nomination of Matthew Anderson to serve as NASA’s deputy administrator. The vote by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee moves the confirmation of the CACI International,

Astronaut safety and delays were top concerns in a new audit of NASA’s plans to use either SpaceX’s Starship or Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar landers on future Artemis missions,

The companies say the partnership will help move expandable habitat technology toward operational missions by scaling up production, bolstering engineering efforts and integrating