See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid making its way toward Earth today, May 2, 2025, with an alarming speed of 42,300 ...

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft halted thrusting due to a xenon pressure drop. Backup systems are ready, and mission progress ...

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

May 11: SpaceX launches NASA’s TRACERS mission. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry twin synchronized spacecraft to orbit as ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon and which gives off a blue glow. These thrusters use tiny amounts of xenon and expel charged atoms to move forwards. While electric ...

"On April 1, the spacecraft detected a pressure drop in the line that feeds the xenon gas to the thrusters, going from 36 ...

Vesta has a number of characteristics working in its favor when it comes to its visibility in the night sky. For one, it ...

The asteroid, spanning around 49 to 111 feet in diameter, is hurtling through space at some 42,300 miles per hour.