Cruz is chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and has an outsized say in space policy. As a senator from Texas, he has a parochial interest in Johnson Space Center, where the International Space Station Program is led.

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA's Mars sample return project, saying it could potentially find evidence of Red Planet life.

Advocates for space science research are concerned about job losses and cuts to funding at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

"Awards like these are a critical component of our incubator program for future missions, which combines government leadership with commercial innovation to make what is impossible today rapidly implementable in the future," said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division in the statement.

NASA’s first manned trip to the moon in over 50 years needs volunteers. The space agency announced last week that it’s crowdsourcing Earth-side support for its next mission. Artemis II, tentatively slated for April 2026, will carry four astronauts on a ...

NASA’s Mars Sample Return program faces opposition from planetary scientists following proposed cancellation, with concerns raised over Perseverance samples, future Mars missions, and international competition.

A former NASA administrator testified that it was “highly unlikely” the agency would win the new space race unless something changes. Reading time 4 minutes The U.S. is at risk of ceding its lead in the new space race to China, experts told a Senate ...

A sampling of the over 2,000 artworks that are part of the NASA Art Program were recently uploaded to NASA's Flickrstream, and give an insight into the breadth of work that has come out of this rare merger between a government agency and art. Annie ...