NASA’s asteroid trackers have just watched a school‑bus‑sized space rock make a safe, distant pass by our planet, part of a ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

NASA has taken a major step toward one of its most ambitious science goals as it searches for signs of life on planets beyond ...

New research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth’s orbit and shaping the cycles that drive long-term ...

NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...