A “dirty snowball” from the distant icy cloud encircling our solar system passed by the Sun and Earth in autumn 2024. Earth-based observers scanning the night sky in autumn 2024 may witness a ...

According to NASA, comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that are left over from the formation of the ...

Dip and Dive Despite being top-secret, the Pentagon is promising that its X-37b spaceplane is going to do some sick-ass ...

A NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa, one of the best bets for finding life beyond Earth.

The spacecraft succeeded where many had failed, peering Venus’ suffocating clouds to showing us the planet’s face for the ...

It won't land, but the robotic spacecraft will fly as close as 16 miles to the moon's frozen surface to probe oceans of ...

The U.S. military's X-37B space plane is about to begin a series of novel maneuvers, according to a rare official update on ...

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang.

During the “aerobraking”, the Boeing-made vehicle will use the drag of Earth’s atmosphere to slow it down, reducing its energy while only expending minimal fuel. It will then jettison its service ...

NASA/Matthew Dominick NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this timelapse photo of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...

The X-37B will execute aerobraking to change its orbit around Earth and safely dispose of its service module components.

B’s service module, used to carry experimental payloads and scientific instruments, will be jettisoned during the aerobraking process ...