The growing congestion of Earth orbit has raised risks to satellites, space stations, and long-term space sustainability. The ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured the first-ever view of asteroid Donaldjohanson. It was reported by NASA the spacecraft’s closest approach distance was 600 miles (960 km). Credit: Space.com | image ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) — the country’s largest organization of Earth and space scientists, engineers, and ...

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

Scientists are taking precautions against Asteroid 2024 YR4, which might hit the Moon in 2032. Instead of the usual plan to ...

STORY: NASA will send four astronauts on a ten-day voyage around the moon in 2026 - the latest step in a mission to land ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s Kepler telescope had confirmed its 1,000th exoplanet. By 2022, the tally ...

To be clear, NASA relies on the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)’s planetary protection policy as the main way it demonstrates compliance with Outer Space Treaty (OST) planetary protection ...

The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found.

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) completed its Flight Readiness Review on Sept. 18, which certifies ...