NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office sounds like something out of a disaster movie, but its work is far more methodical than cinematic. Instead of scrambling at the last minute, the office ...

It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to 153,000 miles per hour. It's also only the third confirmed interstellar ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...

A NASA probe has started its mission to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun, the space agency announced on Monday. The space ...

Michelle Thompson, associate professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences in the College of Science, will present “A Time Machine to the Early Solar System: Analyzing Samples from Asteroid ...

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The four-person crew of NASA's Artemis II mission are seeing parts of the moon on Monday that human eyes have never seen before. The agency's Orion space capsule launched atop an SLS rocket from the ...

(Phys.org)—NASA is powering ahead toward new destinations in the solar system. This week marks one year of progress since the formation of the Space Launch System (SLS), the nation's next step in ...

Charles Fulco, a NASA Solar System ambassador, was hooked on space travel since watching the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve in 1968. Fulco now visits classrooms to teach students about science and ...