A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has ...
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...
Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, has advocated for a Mars-first strategy and has previously called planned missions to ...
Most people hear “spacecraft” and envision rockets blasting into space, but they’re often not aware of the meticulous ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a radiation-hardened computer, a magnetic field detector, and a lunar soil collection ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
This mission further aims at investigating how the Sun’s corona transforms into the solar wind, helping improve space weather ...