Japan’s national space agency – the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – was established in 2003, but the history of Japan’s space programs dates all the way back to early developments in rocketry in the 1920s. As Japan transitioned through ...

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 ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Space Force officer in charge of overseeing each launch on the Space Coast has changed hands. Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen handed off some of her duties, including the roles of commander for Space Launch Delta 45 and director of the ...

Larry Bell (left) and Chet Vaughan worked for many years for NASA from the moon landings to the International Space Station. When former astronauts from the Apollo era pass away, it tends to make the news — like it did last month when we learned of the ...

Reentry of an unarmed U.S. Air Force Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile following a test launch. Credit: U.S. Army photo by Amy Hansen HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 defense budget request marks a turning ...

Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering Overview Purdue University’s online Master of Science in Space Systems Engineering is designed to produce students with firm grounding in space systems engineering and well prepared to lead and execute transdisciplinary processes that result in space systems that are responsive to stakeholder’s needs. Specifically, the program will educate ...

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon — and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either. On Friday (Feb. 27), the space agency announced that it's revamping the architecture of its Artemis program of lunar exploration.