The development of commercial space stations comes as NASA plans the end of an era. The existing International Space Station – which has been run by the space agencies in the United States, Europe, ...

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With an asteroid threatening impact with the moon in 2032, NASA explores all possible avenues to avert catastrophe—even nuclear weapons.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

The PBR calls to reduce NASA’s top-line funding by nearly 25 percent—which would represent the largest single-year cut in the agency’s history—and trim its workforce by nearly one-third. That would ...

Fictional depiction of what blowing up the asteroid could look like. AI-generated image. A city-block-sized asteroid named 2024 YR4 is hurtling through space, and it has our Moon in its sights.

Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from low Earth orbit ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

A returned astronaut had a surprise when she gazed out of a passenger plane window and saw a rocket she had recently ridden. NASA spacewoman Anne McClain watched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rise into the ...

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell released a report that quotes NASA whistleblowers as saying they've "seen safety impacts" due to budget cuts.

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...