Asteroid 101955 Bennu is roughly 500 meters across, close to the height of the Empire State Building measured from base to ...

Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...

Japan's MMX mission aims to uncover Phobos' origins by returning samples from Mars' moon, potentially reshaping solar system ...

NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies has ruled out any chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon in 2032, ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman led a return visit to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on Sept. 2 as part of ...

NASA's Interworld Slingshot Resource Surveys aims to use Raman spectroscopy from orbit, enabling efficient mineral scouting ...

Is our planetary defense lousy? The imminent Earth Impactor CERNQ52 crashed near Australia yesterday, and NASA explained why ...

Mercury has been shrinking since it formed in our solar system's early days. New evidence, though, suggests it used to be ...

Magnetic mission Artist’s impression of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft orbiting Mercury. (Courtesy: JPL/NASA/Johns Hopkins ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured NASA’s newly launched Roman Space Telescope moving across the night sky, ...

Over one winter, the odds of it striking Earth on a single December date climbed past 1 percent, then kept climbing past 3 percent. For a short stretch it was, by the European Space Agency’s reckoning ...

Japan Phobos mission 2026: JAXA will launch its MMX spacecraft on Oct. 19, carrying instruments to collect Phobos regolith ...