Meanwhile, the agency is preparing for another ambitious mission: the MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, scheduled for 2026. The goal is to collect samples from the Martian ...

As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

Pema Tsho Sakhu, a 13-year-old Bhutanese student living in Perth, Australia, is already reaching for the stars, literally.

During their mission, Pettit and his crewmates spent 220 days in space, orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and traveling a total ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

NASA's ER-2 science aircraft flew instruments designed to improve satellite data products and Earth science observations.

As you watch the night sky, streaks of light often flash for a moment, then disappear. These brilliant flashes—called ...

Hayabusa2 successfully delivered pieces of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020, marking a triumph for the Japan ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and crew will depart the International Space Station and return to Earth on Saturday, April 19.