By Katrina Miller NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry. By Robin George ...

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Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space ...

As CEO of SpaceX, Musk holds billions of dollars’ worth of contracts with the government and NASA specifically. The space agency contracts SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, for example ...

Yet, even with such hefty demands, this project was tapped as a top priority for NASA in the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020), an influential report that aims to set a ...

Credit: NASA With the United States space sector already generating more ... Whether you’re an academic, executive, engineer or even just a concerned citizen of the cosmos, send your arguments ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). JWST was used to study PDS 70, a young star with two ...

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The Webb images show dense sheets of gas and dust stretching across hundreds of astronomical units. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured highly detailed images showing the complex layers ...

After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, dressed in pressurized NASA ...