It wouldn't even be the first time that the commercial space sector has lent NASA a helping hand. In March of last year, stranded astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were rescued from the International Space Station with assistance from SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft.

On Friday, NASA joined in on the tributes by posting a photo on social media taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that appears to show galaxies colliding in a way that resembles the USS Enterprise, the fictional starship Stewart captained on the show as Jean-Luc Picard.

NASA is calling on all hands to help research Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) by crowdsourcing observations of the colorful phenomenon and letting the public share the visuals they capture.

Florida's Space Coast hosted a record-shattering 109 orbital rocket launches during 2025, soaring beyond all previous annual records.

NASA chief Jared Isaacman views the race to the moon as a geopolitical goal, as rivals China and Russia plan to develop a nuclear-reactor-powered moon base within a decade.

Budget gutted and shuttles grounded, the federal agency can only appeal to the private sector for help.

On August 11, 2026, at 8:30 a.m., NASA's Curiosity rover photographed distant wind-carved cliffs on Mars. One layer looks out of place.

NASA lost Voyager 1’s signal on Oct.