Space

NASA’s DART mission — Double Asteroid Redirection Test — was humanity’s first real-world planetary defense mission. In September …

The “visor” for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed several environmental tests simulating the conditions it …

The infrared NEOWISE space telescope relayed its final data about asteroids and comets to Earth before the project …

One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not …

The barely-there lunar atmosphere is likely the product of meteorite impacts over billions of years, a new study …

On any clear night, if you gaze skyward long enough, chances are you’ll see a meteor streaking through …

For the past few weeks, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the International …

Apart from the Sun, its planets, and their moons, our Solar System has vast amounts of space rocks …

Any night now, a “new star” or nova will appear in the night sky. While it won’t set …

When we turn our radio telescopes out toward space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating …