Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months ...
Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months, de-pending on the day it launches. This orbital diagram shows the low-energy transfer trajectory of the NASA mission ...
The upcoming spring exhibition at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, opening Saturday, invites museum patrons to immerse ...
NASA’s NEO Surveyor has passed its critical design review, clearing the way for construction and testing. This infrared ...
The risk assessment of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 has increased from a chance of 1.2% impact over the last week ...
On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...
A team at JPL packed up three small Moon rovers, delivering them in February to the facility where they'll be attached to a commercial ...
During the latest round of layoffs, the tiny team was among the hundreds let go. And though some parts of the educational ...
While the Martian clouds may look like the kind seen in Earth’s skies, they include frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.
What’s more, Webb used its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument to observe glowing interstellar gas and dust illuminated ...
YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency.
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...