In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. The new year’s missions will expand humanity’s horizons even further.
While privately funded programs to develop space vehicles and execute extraterrestrial missions have been in play for years, ...
Not all December space missions were successful. The Japanese startup Space One, for example, saw its Kairos rocket self-destruct shortly after lifting off from Kushimoto in Japan’s Wakayama ...
NASA has said that an asteroid larger than 131 feet could cause significant damage to Earth, f it were to make impact.
Cratered surfaces across our solar system reveal signs of ancient impacts, but mysterious gullies on Vesta might have formed ...
The data NASA hopes to collect should also provide insights into how space weather and other cosmic forces effect Earth. Future missions led by Firefly will be to the moon's far side and will ...
The lunar south pole offers essential advantages for long-term missions. However, astronauts will encounter unprecedented ...
NASA's 2024 started with a crash that brought an abrupt end to one of its most remarkable missions of recent years.
In 2024, the United States returned a spacecraft to the lunar surface, private astronauts accomplished historic firsts and SpaceX ramped up testing of a vehicle that will prove pivotal in humanity ...
From a death swirl into Jupiter to "Ghost Riders in the Sky," here are some of the most exciting space missions coming in ...