March 28, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

NASA has big, potentially revolutionary plans coming up. On March 24, the agency announced that it wants to send a ...

The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion ...

NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset — to be the first nation to put people on the lunar surface.

NASA is set to launch its second mission of its Artemis program, originally schedule for February, this week. During a wet dress rehearsal of the rocket-towering system at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

NASA’s yearly budget equals about two weeks of Iran war spending, exposing the scale of America’s fiscal trade-offs.

The Artemis II crew has entered quarantine for 14 days ahead of the historic moon mission launch as NASA moves the massive ...

Discover how human spaceflight began and why it matters for our lives today! Explore NASA, the Cold War space race, astronaut training, and the impact of seeing Earth from space. In this episode of ...

If all goes according to plan Monday, NASA’s launch team at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will load more than 700,000 gallons of super-cold propellants into the rocket built to send the Artemis II ...

Nasa’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been orbiting the Earth for over two decades. Now, it is slowly falling out of ...

Kerry Breen is a news editor at CBSNews.com. A graduate of New York University's Arthur L. Carter School of Journalism, she previously worked at NBC News' TODAY Digital. She covers current events, ...