BROOMFIELD, Colorado—One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for ...

Inspired by the upcoming Artemis II mission, Omaha Pubic Schools students designed their own journey to the moon using robots ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — As SpaceX launched the four-person crew of the Fram2 mission on Monday night, it was a takeoff for the history books as they will be the first humans to ever orbit Earth’s polar ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. By Katrina Miller In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a ...

NASA’s Artemis III mission will no longer land on the moon. The agency announced Friday that its Artemis III mission will instead send astronauts to low-Earth orbit to practice docking with one — or ...

Most of the Van Allen Probe A, in orbit since 2012, will incinerate in Earth’s atmosphere, NASA said. But some pieces are expected to survive, posing a small risk to people on the ground. By Michael ...

The U.S. Space Force has cleared a major design hurdle in its Resilient Missile Warning and Tracking program. (BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems) The U.S. Space Force has cleared a major design ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, did more than shove a small asteroid into a tighter loop around its companion. The September 2022 impact also measurably changed the binary ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with the Moon in 2032. New observations have helped researchers refine the space ...

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