One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...

The magnetosphere, formed by Earth's magnetic field, acts as a protective shield that deflects solar wind—the flow of charged ...

Another NASA-funded tech demo named Athena EPIC was also aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Led by NASA's Langley Research Center, ...

Despite owning more than half of the satellites currently in low Earth orbit, SpaceX is complaining about AST SpaceMobile’s ...

"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and ...

Even when skies seem calm, space has its surprises. An asteroid the size of an airplane is flying close. While there's no ...

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging from basic science to technology development.

NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks and preview what's coming in 2029.

The TRACERS mission—short for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites—aims to study how ...

Earth’s magnetosphere protects us from charged particles constantly emitted by the Sun, but intense conditions can breach it ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...