The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic ...

A space rock the color of coal and no larger than a pebble you’d shake from a shoe just arrived at the Field Museum, where scientists will spend the next two months probing this extraordinary specimen ...

In a major milestone for China’s space exploration program, the Tianwen 2 spacecraft has transmitted its first photo from ...

President Trump's proposed budget for 2026 threatens NASA's science spending, potentially abandoning the Mars sample return ...

Perhaps most remarkably, the anti-government populism that’s eroded trust in so many institutions hasn’t dented NASA. In 2015, Pew found that 68 percent of Americans viewed the agency favorably; in ...

Several ongoing and future missions led or co-led by NASA exploring the cosmos could face serious changes if Congress ...

Gutting NASA is a preventable disaster,” writes Christopher Cokinos in an op-ed. “Congressional voices on both sides of the ...

If signed into law as written, the White House's proposal to slash nearly 25 percent from NASA's budget would have some dire ...

Europa has long been a prime target in the search for extraterrestrial biology because scientists suspect it harbors a ...

The asteroid, also known as Kamoʻoalewa, is a strange little object just 40 metres wide. It orbits the Sun in sync with Earth, making it a “quasi-moon”, an asteroid that stays close to our planet but ...