Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Way back in April of 2024, observers at a small telescope in Chile reported a very faint speck hurtling toward the Sun. It was a comet, the icy siblings of asteroids ...

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

NASA launches NF-5, revolutionizing planetary missions with advanced technology to explore new horizons on the Moon and in ...

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The Comet Surface Sample Return would do the same ... with the timeframe for the sixth iteration of the program. Thus, NASA requested the National Academies “investigate and report on any ...

While NASA has made progress in tracking the largest ... a nuclear-armed mission to protect the planet from an approaching comet or asteroid. If at least nine of the Security Council’s 15 ...

NASA eyes a return to Saturn with a new probe, aiming to uncover gas giant mysteries. Missions to Enceladus, Io, and the Moon ...