NASA has announced that a 510-foot asteroid, roughly the size of a building, will make close passes by Earth. Despite its ...
We know Mars once had an active geological past, filled with water, volcanic activity, and dynamic geological changes. Now, ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system ...
NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...
Peanuts! Get your peanuts here! The solar system has been passing out peanuts lately in the form of two different oddly shaped asteroids that recently passed by Earth, and both look like over-sized ...
At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...
NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials gave a sneak peek into the upcoming Europa Clipper mission, the first NASA ...
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet ...
The asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will do a 56-day horseshoe-shaped fly-by near Earth before it continues on it journey.
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...
The weekend brought some wild space news, including a sailing spacecraft and, of course, a couple of astronauts stranded on the International Space Station.