Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

NASA reports that two asteroids, 2024 YC9 and 2024 YL1, will approach Earth on January 3, 2025, providing a valuable opportunity for scientific study. Although these asteroids will pass safely by ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe skimmed the sun on Christmas Eve and lived to tell the tale. The heat-hardened spacecraft made its closest solar flyby yet at 6:53 a.m. EST on December 24. It came ...

A priceless piece of lunar rock given to Ireland following a Nasa mission was lost in a fire ... it was put on display in the drawing room of Aras an Uachtarain,” one document noted.

Billionaire aeronaut Jared Isaacman, one of the world’s great space philanthropists and now set to head NASA, says he envisions millions of space sojourners lifting off from Planet Earth in ...

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last on the moon in 1972 during the Apollo 17 mission. Artemis II will ...

With SpaceX continuously launching Falcon 9 rockets on Starlink and customer satellite deliveries and NASA missions − add in United Launch Alliance (ULA) launching the occasional Department of D ...

Before Christa McAuliffe was an astronaut, she was a vibrant teacher in New England keen on showing her students how everyday people left extraordinary marks on U.S. history. Nearly four decades ...

NASA has been monitoring a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...