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Image: Ahead of Asteroid Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Meteor Crater, also known as the Barringer Meteorite Crater.

NASA has released two white papers associated with the agency's Moon to Mars architecture efforts. The papers, one on lunar mobility drivers and needs, and one on lunar surface cargo, detail NASA's latest thinking on spe...

Japan's space agency said Friday its planned launch this weekend of a satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket will be postponed until Monday due to expected bad weather.

NASA is flying aircraft low over the US in order to learn where, exactly, greenhouse gases are coming from. The results should help the agency fight causes of human-driven climate change.

China is getting set for future deep space missions, having retrieved nearly two kilograms of lunar samples from the moon's far side. The post China gears up for deep space missions after collecting 1,935 grams of lunar ...

Video: 00:07:14 Have you ever wondered what an impact crater looks like from space? Today, we're counting down some of our favourite impact craters here on Earth - captured by Earth-observing satellites. Craters are inev...

As everybody who saw May’s spectacular auroral displays knows, the Sun is in its most active period in 11 years. The active region sunspot group that unleased the giant X-class flare rotated around the Sun, away from o...

U.S. Space Command says it is "working with SpaceX to safely track the orbit lowering and reentry of Starlink satellites" The post Military space trackers to keep public informed on Starlink satellite reentries appeared ...

India completed a series of tests for autonomously landing its fully reusable launch vehicle, marking another milestone in the country's pursuit of low cost access to space.

As the most volcanic object in the Solar System, Jupiter’s moon Io attracts a lot of attention. NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at the Jovian system in July 2016, and in recent months, it’s been paying closer attent...

The Perseverance rover's SHERLOC instrument has been revived to continue its search for evidence of microbial life on Mars.

NASA's 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum brought 12 university teams from across the United States to Huntsville, Alabama, near the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center, to showcase their innovative concepts for ...

Protecting the astronauts of the Artemis program is one of NASA’s highest priorities. The agency intends to have a long-term presence on the Moon, which means long-term exposure to dangerous radiation levels. As part o...

This labyrinth - with a silhouette of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes at its center - is used as a calibration target for the cameras and laser that are part of SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman...

NASA's public competitions can catalyze big changes - not just for the agency but also for participants. Bronco Space, the CubeSat laboratory at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California, matured more...

Small asteroids have the Red Planet in their crosshairs more often than not, as Mars lander's seismometer detects their impacts.

NASA's Mars InSight Lander may be resting on the Red Planet in retirement, but data from the robotic explorer is still leading to seismic discoveries on Earth.

An asteroid will whiz harmlessly past Earth this weekend. With the right equipment and timing, you just might spot it.

Head outside this week at around 10 p.m. local daylight time and face due east and locate the Ring Nebula for a summertime skywatching treat.

Boeing Starliner's spacecraft doesn't have a landing date, but the spacecraft is stable at the ISS and will remain there as a new round of testing begins.

A recent discovery by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) confirmed that luminous, very red objects previously detected in the early universe upend conventional thinking about the origins and evolution of galaxies a...

Technological innovations make headlines every day, and NASA's In Space Production Applications (InSPA) Portfolio of awards are driving these innovations into the future. InSPA awards help U.S. companies demonstrate in...