NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured this stunning long-exposure view of Earth and stars from space at night from the ...

For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...

IM-2 is flying via NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which puts agency science and technology instruments on private moon landers. The goal is to gather a wealth of ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth. However, a new study from scientists at University of California Santa Cruz ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA successfully sent a laser message from the Psyche spacecraft to Earth, spanning 16 million kilometers. This milestone is part of the Deep Space Optical ...

Observatories on Earth like the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia help track ... with their sunward side getting warmed up before spinning out of view. In the shade, they remit ...

Retired Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has compared asteroid 2024 YR4 to 'a bullet zeroing in on Earth from deep space'. 'It's about 500 times more powerful than the biggest bomb we exploded ...

Voyager 1, nearly a light-day distant from Earth, failed to respond as expected ... and the fear was that the Deep Space Network would not be able to find the weak signal. But find it they did ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space ... of a mile wide and 600 feet deep.

Now the company is set to actually travel toward a near-Earth asteroid in deep space. AstroForge’s second robotic spacecraft, called Odin, is bundled into a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will also ...

The goal of the company's mission is a bold one, becoming the first commercially built craft to navigate far beyond the Moon, with the secondary goal of reaching near-Earth asteroid 2022 OB5.