The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

In September 2022, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, a spacecraft collided with the small ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A is falling to Earth much sooner than expected, though the spacecraft's reentry poses a low risk to ...

Mars didn’t always look like the barren world we see today. Over billions of years, the Sun’s solar wind stripped away much of its atmosphere, helping transform it from a warmer, wetter planet into a ...

A spacecraft plunged back into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday. While most of the probe was expected to burn up during ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe models are now on permanent display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, providing insight into testing ...

NASA's Van Allen Probe A is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere almost 14 years after launch. From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, ...

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

The satellite blazed through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, March 11.