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Hundreds of millions of years ago, an asteroid caught by Earth's gravity might have fragmented, creating a temporary ring ...
Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin are separately developing systems that would allow rockets to refuel once ...
Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward.
A shocking discovery on the surface of the interstellar object dubbed 3I/ATLAS could confirm that it was artificially ...
The 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission for NASA, scheduled to lift off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in late August, is heading to the International Space Station ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures striking new details of the planet, including rock samples that could return to Earth in future missions.
Moon rock collected on the last Apollo mission is revealing more about one of the Moon’s most unusual structures, the Light ...
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, ...
Mars rovers like Perseverance and Curiosity have been making headlines with their discoveries of organic matter on the Red ...
NASA’s Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon, and those astronauts will get there ...
How much does it cost to fling a scientific payload through millions of miles of interplanetary space and then return some of ...