Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore don't require a "rescue mission." The veteran astronauts challenged some misconceptions the public has had about their over-extended stay aboard the...
With Blue Ghost's successful soft-landing, Firefly Aerospace has become only the first private company ever to have a lunar probe intact on the lunar surface.
Swift J1727 is the first such black hole to be observed by IXPE as it went through the stages of an X-ray outburst, from its onset...
Hubble first photographed M90 in 1994 using the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), which produced a distinctive stair-step pattern due to its sensor layout
A team of scientists and engineers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) joined forces to determine if a small piloted drone, outfitted with a...
NEOWISE has been on a mission to focus on detecting near-Earth objects (NEOs), including comets and asteroids, that pose a potential collision risk with Earth.
Shorter than Olympus Mons, but taller than Everest, has the Noctis volcano hiding in plain sight close to the Martian equator. Planetary scientists now wonder if...
In 1978, Donald J. Kessler, an astrophysicist, predicted collisions between satellites can get out of hand as their population keeps increasing.
NASA’s planned orbiter exploring Jupiter’s moon, Europa, will carry a metal plate representing messages from earth.
MethaneSat can help 'name and shame' methane polluters.
