JPL engineers observing a successful touchdown of the InSight lander in 2018. Van Zyl is sixth from the left. NASA/BILL INGALLS ASA/JPL name...

Ingenuity is separating from the underside of the NASA Perseverance rover / NASA The first helicopter on Mars is officially on Martian soil....

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. / NASA/JPL-Caltech The Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, is a small, autonomous aircraft which flew to Mars tuck...

Space Shuttle docking on International Space Station in space / 3D Sculptor  NASA is taking more steps to support new commercial space stati...

The International Space Station jettisons a 2.9-ton pallet carrying used batteries on March 11, 2021. This photo was posted on Twitter by NA...

Hubble Space Telescope / NSA NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope resumed observations March 11 after a software error placed it in a protective sa...

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket lifts off Feb. 20 carrying a Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Patr...

Perseverance rover ''Percy''walking safely on Mars' surface / NASA The  NASA Perseverance rover  safely landed on Mars...

RACE double CubeSat mission / ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) is increasingly utilizing small ‘CubeSat’ nanosatellites. These are employ...

NASA astronaut Shannon Walker sets up hardware inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox for an experiment to learn more about the process of...

Dr. Jakob 'Japie' van Zyl Top Namibian-NASA scientist Dr Jakob ‘Japie’ van Zyl who made headlines with his work at the Natio...