Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the ...

For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog. Credit: Directed by: L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser Hosted by: S. Randall Written by: A. Briggs, S.

A full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe, the history-making Johns Hopkins APL-built spacecraft that has flown closer to the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

NASA and its international partners are planning to build a small space station that will orbit the Moon. Known as the Lunar Gateway, it would act as a staging point for missions to the lunar surface ...

Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

Facing a series of major delays and budget overruns, NASA is re-engineering its efforts to return American astronauts to the moon.

A close-up of the surface of asteroid Ryugu. (MASCOT/DLR/JAXA) A new analysis of samples collected from asteroid Ryugu has yielded all five canonical nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. It's not the ...

The rocket will be removed from the launchpad in order for technicians to investigate and fix a malfunctioning helium system. By Kenneth Chang A day after NASA officials optimistically said they were ...

On April 8, 2024, people across the world witnessed a solar eclipse, a relatively rare event in which the moon occults (blocks out) light from the sun. To capture this event, volunteers at 143 ...