The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft will deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try and knock it off course. Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory hope the DART mission could help us save Earth from a catastrophic impact.

Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity, the reusable rocket-powered space plane carrying the company’s first crew of tourists to space, has successfully launched and landed.

US space agency NASA has warned that a huge 1,082 ft asteroid bigger than the Eiffel Tower will break into Earth’s orbit in just over a week.The space rock is heading our way and should skim past us on December 11. NASA has its eye on Asteroid 4660 Nereus because it’s well over 492 feet long and wil

When Wylie Overstreet set up his telescope outside on a whim, he had no idea he would inspire awe in hundreds of strangers on the streets of Los Angeles, reminding them of their common humanity.

On July 20, Blue Origin will fly its 16th New Shepard flight to space, and its first with astronauts on board. Broadcast starts at T-90 minutes to launch.

The spacecraft crashed into an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument. NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally collided with an asteroid on Monday evening, in an attempt to alter the space rock’s trajectory. The mission tested technology that could help defend Earth against potential future aster

A photo taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter appears to show spiders walking across the surface of Mars, but, in this case, things do not always look as they appear.

Watch as NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir prepare tools necessary for their spacewalk duties outside of the International Space Station on Friday, October 18, 2019.

An Atlas V rocket lofted the Juno spacecraft toward Jupiter from Space Launch Complex-41. The 4-ton Juno spacecraft will take five years to reach Jupiter on a mission to study its structure and decipher its history.
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Astronomers are combing through fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope in a never-ending quest to find ever-more-distant galaxies. However, the observatory is still studying a variety of objects, from insanely detailed images of Jupiter to the most distant known star.