10 Things You Should Know About Planetary Defense

Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets, but their…

What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?

Astronaut twin brothers Scott and Mark Kelly took part in a unique space travel experiment and…

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test Mission

NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid…

NASA Sees El Niño Conditions Prevail in the Central Pacific Ocean

An El Niño that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 4/11/2019

Airway Monitoring: The crew performed the Airway Monitoring US Airlock Session consisting of two different protocols,…

PIA23166: Europa's Rhadamanthys Linea

           Target: Europa Mission:  Galileo Instrument:  Solid-State Imaging Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Click here for original…

First black hole picture: The big mysteries we still need to solve

We finally have the first real image of a black hole, so researchers can begin studying…

Europe’s institutions on their use of Ariane 6 and Vega-C

ESA and Arianespace are giving full support to European institutional customers to launch their missions on…

Everything you need to know about the first black hole image

Space and physics reporter Leah Crane answers New Scientist readers’ questions on the first ever images…

Largest dust storm on Mars ever recorded may reveal why it's so dry

The same dust storm on Mars that killed the Opportunity rover is helping us understand how…