NASA's Webb telescope unveils details about strange auroras on Uranus

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

“At First, We Thought Something Was Wrong” – NASA DART Mission Reveals a Cosmic Snowball Fight

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...
New Scientist

NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

NASA’s DART mission slammed into the small asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, and the impact slowed its orbit around the larger Didymos – and also the pair’s path around the sun ...
Science Daily

NASA DART mission reveals asteroids throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...

NASA Identifies Pennsylvania Native Astronaut Behind First-Ever Medical Evacuation From The ISS

A medical emergency aboard the International Space Station that forced a SpaceX crew to return to Earth early has now been linked to a veteran NASA astronaut, according to a release on March 4.NASA ...

'Not the right pathway forward,' new NASA plan changes Artemis missions

NASA's Artemis moon missions face changes after continuous SLS rocket delays. A new plan aims to speed up launches and get to ...

NASA honours astronomers who helped confirm humanity’s first asteroid deflection

Observations from a global network of telescopes helped verify that NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of ...

Watch: NASA astronaut shares viral 60x speed time-lapse capturing Earth’s lightning, oceans, sunsets, and moon

Seeing the Earth from space never gets old. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman recently shared a breathtaking time-lapse video that seems to capture the planet in all its glory. Filmed during SpaceX’s CRS-33 ...

Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

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

Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

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