Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral galaxy is named NGC 5134, and it is located 65 million light-years ...

Asteroids would’ve supplied the raw materials, heat, and geologic plumbing to circulate prebiotic matter while also creating ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a pristine sample from asteroid Bennu, scientists expected ancient space dust.

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible from Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain, making it the first to pass over mainland Europe since 1999. Our stories cover all you need to know ...

That's because a fragment of it landed in the family driveway, where the Wilcocks saw it in the morning. They described it as if someone had thrown a piece of coal at the ground. It actually made a ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and dust. These objects move on .

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...

NASA is moving into a new phase of space exploration, with major progress across human spaceflight, science missions, and advanced technology. In just one year, the agency has launched multiple crewed ...