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As NASA's budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science: 'Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation'
Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...
NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable conditions
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
NASA's future telescope could solve the mystery of life's origins
The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's ...
NASA facing a major exodus? Space agency to lose most experienced employees due to…, 2145 senior staff members, 875 top-level workers planning to…
NASA is seeing a huge wave of resignations, with 1,818 employees from its main missions in science and human spaceflight ...
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NASA teaches Mars orbiter to roll over in quest to find Red Planet water
The spacecraft now almost tips upside down relative to Mars to give its radar the best view. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
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Could NASA's Mars Sample Return be saved? Lockheed Martin proposes $3 billion plan to haul home Red Planet rocks (video)
Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new proposal to take over NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission for less than half the ...
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Scientists Discover 9,000 Miles of Ancient Riverbeds on Mars. The Red Planet May Have Been Wet for Millions of Years
Looks like Mars might have had more water than anyone previously imagined.
Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...
Reanalysis of Kepler data uncovers two planets in KOI-134 system with unusual orbital dynamics
A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...
NASA’s skywatching tips for July include an ‘eagle’
NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...
NASA Flips a Mars Orbiter Upside Down – And Discovers a Hidden World
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...
Astronomers detect first known ‘death wish’ planet
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...