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On August 7, 2024, NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected a space object that, for a little ...

After launching early on Tuesday, the billionaire Jared Isaacman and his crew traveled to altitudes not visited by any ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

The inner core is surrounded by the outer core ... are increasingly monitoring Earth from space. NASA alone has dozens of missions dedicated to solving our planet's mysteries.

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

When Sarah Gillis performed ‘Rey’s Theme’, a piece John Williams composed for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, her concert hall ...

You stand at the shore of a desolate ocean on a desolate world. As the dawn breaks, a strangely red star, 50 times larger ...

The actor, vocalist and philanthropist's new Ben Folds-produced record ponders the fragility of our planet ... into space in 2021, when he became the oldest human to travel beyond Earth’s ...