The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

Astronomy and shooting seem to have little in common. But two space missions since 2004 resemble skeet shooting, albeit on a ...

Genesis data is now producing high impact science in cosmochemistry, solar physics, coronal mass ejections, and space ...

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

Jason Kalirai, an astrophysicist and space mission area executive at APL, has been selected as a fellow by the American ...

A Texas-built lander named Blue Ghost marks another test of NASA’s new lunar delivery initiative ...

Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander has launched from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A, and is on a 45-day journey to the moon for ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

New study reveals Pluto and Charon’s origin: a unique "kiss and capture" collision redefines how binary systems form.

If something happened to Earth, our species could be wiped out. For example, the aforementioned asteroid impact. Colonizing other bodies in the solar system (or building our own orbiting habitats ...