NASA is considering whether to send a crew on its first integrated Orion, SLS flight around the Moon.
NASA has announced the discovery of seven new planets including three within their star's habitable zone.
The space agency is due to announce its latest findings at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
The move, if successful, could mean that our own solar system actually has more than 100 planets in it.
The private space firm has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has found carbon-based materials similar to those found on the early Earth.
Scientists are hoping to develop a mission to learn once and for all whether there is life on Europa.
A new joint mission will see astronauts orbiting the Moon for the first time in over four decades.
Astronaut Scott Kelly spent 340 days aboard the space station while his twin brother remained on Earth.
NASA has released a new video recreating the Huygens probe's historic touchdown on Saturn's moon Titan.
Known as Lucy and Psyche, the new spacecraft will be studying two relics of the early solar system.
A budget of $188 million has been assigned to the new mission which will be launching within three years.
Being 250 miles above the Earth hasn't stopped the space station crew from joining in with the festivities.
A prominent NASA scientist has outlined just how vulnerable our planet is to threats from outer space.
Professor Stephen Hawking has teamed up with NASA to design and develop an interstellar nano-starship.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified an ice deposit with more water than Lake Superior.
NASA's 'impossible' propulsion system continues to intrigue as it receives its first peer-reviewed paper.
The President-elect is hoping to send humans back to the Moon - and beyond - within the next few decades.
The anomalous object was spotted in front of the Sun in an image taken by NASA's STEREO satellites.
Being high up above the planet didn't stop astronaut Shane Kimbrough from casting his vote last week.