NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
On Feb. 11, 2000, space shuttle Endeavour took to the skies on its 14th trip into space on the Shuttle Radar Topography ...
On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International ...
Even the smallest odds of an impact sound alarming, but scientists’ ability to calculate them is actually good news.
The flash was spotted by the Einstein Probe’s Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT), which uses a novel type of design known as a ...
Scientists have long debated the origin of the organic material found on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt.
“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...
The Crew-10 mission will carry NASA astronauts ... maintain the orientation of the orbital outpost, NASA said. The astronauts also installed patches to cover damaged areas of light filters on ...