Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.

NASA confirmed that nuclear-micropowered probes (NMPs) using tritium betavoltaic power technology is possible. A new study ...

As scientists get closer to putting humans on Mars, the need to understand why clocks tick faster on the red planet is more ...

The global race to return humans to the Moon is accelerating, and the United States is betting big on SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket. As reported by CNNon October 12, 2025, China is advancing ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been something of a mystery ever since it graced our solar system. From all outward ...

The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was intended to orbit the moon to map the concentrations and form of water. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — NASA has formally ended a lunar orbiter smallsat ...

On Monday (Oct. 6), the nonprofit Planetary Society held a "day of action" to urge Congress to restore NASA's science funding ...