DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

Junocam is attached to NASA's Juno probe in orbit around Jupiter, and has vastly outperformed its specification, sending home unexpectedly clear images of its moons as well as the swirling gas giant ...

This is equivalent to the moon landing of 1969." Once it enters into its orbit around the sun on Christmas Eve ... it ...

The beginning of Space Space begins where Earth’s atmosphere thins and gives way to the near-vacuum of outer space. The exact ...

The 67.4-meter-long, 5.0-meter-diameter Long March 10A will be used to launch a new generation crew spacecraft ... launch 27 tons into trans-lunar orbit. Two Long March 10 launches will be used to get ...

The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable ...

November's full moon, also known as the beaver moon, officially takes place on Nov. 15. Per The Farmer's Almanac, the moon ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has returned new images of Jupiter after its 66th close flyby as it enters the final year of its ...

LignoSat, developed by Kyoto University and homebuilder Sumitomo Forestry, will be flown to the International Space Station ...

Meanwhile, space tourism, which is gathering pace, brings its own health issues. Traditionally, astronauts are handpicked ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If approved at a key meeting next year, the robotic spacecraft, known as the ...