On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first ...
Scientists at NASA have found patterns which could help predict solar flares, the most common form of solar disturbances aka ...
The NISAR satellite, a joint mission between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is set to launch soon, ...
Cells function differently under low gravity conditions. Rather than send lab samples to space, researchers are developing ...
The agency expects a minor or greater geomagnetic storm—a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic field—on Saturday, which increases ...
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
Jeanette Epps prepared for her trip to space for more than 30 years before her mission in 2024. Now, she wants to show ...
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
To comply, NASA has sought to sanitize Mars rovers at a threshold of no more than 300,000 bacterial spores on any surface.
In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...