The alignment of six planets – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Venus – this month has sky photographers abuzz.
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the ...
The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...
On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Founded in 1990, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame is part of the Heroes & Legends attraction at the Kennedy Space Center ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...