NASA's Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and brief phase of a star in the constellation Sagittarius right before dying and going supernova. The image, released Tuesday at the South by ...

The year 2024 had major space events including a total solar eclipse and historic moon landing. There were moments, though, that reminded us how challenging space exploration can be. Here are the US's ...

NASA has successfully conducted the world's first planetary defense mission, where the space agency launched a small spacecraft and hit a distant asteroid. NASA has announced that its Double Asteroid ...

For the first time, NASA has used laser communication to send 4K video from a plane to the International Space Station (ISS) and back again. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign ...

The Webb Space Telescope is marking one year of cosmic photographs with one of its best yet: the dramatic close-up of dozens of stars at the moment of birth. NASA unveiled the latest snapshot ...

In just a few days from now, NASA will oversee the final moments of its groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission, which marks the first time for the agency to bring back rock samples collected from a distant ...

NASA's Mars rover is currently collecting samples across the Red Planet and placing them in sample tubes that will eventually be transported back to Earth. NASA's Perseverance rover has been ...

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...

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NASA just slammed a spacecraft into a distant asteroid in the name of planetary defense. The asteroid, called Dimorphos, poses no threat to Earth. But the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was ...