NASA's New Horizons spacecraft made an astonishing visit to Arrokoth, a remote Kuiper Belt object, uncovering vital clues ...
NASA’s James Webb Telescope has spotted a mysterious red object that may be a ‘black hole star’ with a black hole 100,000 times the Sun’s mass.
Most robotic missions get a burst of attention at launch, a second burst at arrival, and then vanish from the news. Much of ...
After examining a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 2024, NASA is uncovering new details about ancient water, the chemical changes that shaped early asteroids and the materials that may have helped ...
The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...
Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman wants to put an end to a decades-long debate among scientists. Is Pluto a planet or not? Isaacman says it should be — but it hasn't been one for 20 years. That's ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey ...
There is a fully tenured NASA spacecraft named Mars Odyssey that has been faithfully orbiting the Red Planet since October 2001. It has made more than 100,000 spins around Mars. No spacecraft has ...