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 ...

Tiny radio probe called GIRO may soon reveal what lies beneath alien worlds with 100x more accuracy than current tech.

An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has ...

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

Leveraging satellite imagery, Earth observation is a prime example of where the geospatial field intersects with the space ...

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 ...

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

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will conduct the Voyager Tardigrades mission on the ISS, studying how these resilient ...

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

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 ...