When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel just joined to map its strategy.
NASA's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results.
The Solar System is a fairly tidy place.
It's been one year since we saw the first official images taken by the groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope....
It's also seeking more partnerships and acquisitions..
Astronomers recently announced that they had discovered 62 new moons around the ringed planet Saturn and more are being added to the list. So, how have they lain hidden for so long?
In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have been a very bad idea.
Since the gravitational waves predicted by Einstein were first detected in 2015, astrophysicists have been pondering the gravitational wave background...
An annular solar eclipse, also known as a “ring of fire” eclipse because of the way the sun and moon line up, will be visible in the US, Central America and South America on 14 October...
In 1960, Freeman Dyson proposed how advanced civilizations could create megastructures that enclosed their system, allowing them to harness all of their star's energy and multiplying the habitable space they could occupy.
The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.
The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis.
NASA's quest for extraterrestrial life now includes technosignatures, evidence of advanced civilizations on distant exoplanets. Through AI, new research methods, and a broadened focus, scientists remain hopeful in discovering life beyond Earth. Our first confirmed proof of life beyond Earth might
A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...
You come at the king, you best not miss.
India's Chandrayan-3 mission has nailed its lunar landing.
The Psyche asteroid, a celestial object laden with precious metals and valued at an astounding $10,000 quadrillion.
Armed with this promising new tool, a cutting-edge observatory in Chile will sweep the cosmos for all sorts of transient objects.
NASA took a significant step Tuesday toward allowing humans on the moon to “live off the land,” awarding several contracts to build landing pads, roads and habitats on the lunar surface, use nuclear power for energy, and even lay a high-voltage power line over half a mile....
"This result does not fit in with the currently accepted cosmological models, which include dark matter."
In a rare astronomical event, August 2023 stargazers will see two supermoons, coupled with the appearance of an elusive blue moon
The 'ultracool' star is possibly around 44 times as dense as our solar system's largest member—the gas giant Jupiter.
