NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured an image of a mysterious shiny cylinder, sparking widespread curiosity and debate among ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic bodies.

It's proposing two approaches: either shoot dangerous asteroids with an ion cannon — or ram it out of orbit. The post Jeff ...

Data collected by NASA's missions about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will continue to reveal insights about the comet and ...

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...

A rock and a hard place ...

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

A spacecraft could plunge into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday. While most of the probe will likely burn up during reentry, a few components are expected to survive.