Houston-based Axiom Space is preparing to launch four astronauts into space this Thursday. It's a mission that is emblematic ...

Astronomers discovered asteroid 2024 YR4. It crosses Earth's orbit. Observations show a slightly increased chance of a lunar impact in 2032. The probability is now 4.3%. There is no risk to Earth.

Shortly after astronomers detected asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, they realized it posed no threat to Earth. But it ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken another look at the potential "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 and found its chances ...

China lays foundation for cislunar infrastructure with spacecraft in novel lunar orbits China has sent several small spacecraft into specialized lunar and cislunar orbits to test communications, ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

But the agency may never have had to confront a challenge like the one it faces now: a Trump administration budget plan that would cut funding for NASA’s science programs by nearly 50 percent and its ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Fresh James Webb Space Telescope images capture two young exoplanets in, providing new details about exoplanet atmospheres and formation.

Like all sponsors of science programs, NASA has had its ups and downs. What makes it unique is that its achievements and failures almost always happen in public.