The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) made by Maxar Technologies will be the beating heart and power source for the Gateway ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

On July 20, 1969, the world watched on as the US made space history with its ambitious Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus a half century ago is expected to plunge uncontrolled back to Earth within days.

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

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The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that doesn't mean it has a ...

The Hayabusa2 mission captured the asteroid with eerie clarity against a pitch-black backdrop. The unsettling darkness of ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is preparing for a leadership change as Laurie Leshin, its director since 2022, will ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

Recent papers published in Nature and Nature Astronomy found life’s building blocks on a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.