Titan, Saturn's moon, is a prime target in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, and NASA plans to put a flying robot there as part of its newest planetary scientific mission. The project called Dragonfly will be the first of its type. NASA plans…
Bullseye: In a historic test of humanity's capacity to stop a celestial object from destroying life on Earth, a NASA spacecraft on Monday successfully hit an asteroid 7 million miles away in order to alter its orbit. Ten months after blasting…
Tonight, NASA conducts a mission that blends science and science fiction to save the planet. After a 10-month journey across the solar system, a spaceship will deliberately crash with an asteroid. It's a trial run for a far distant genuine da…
The NASA Perseverance rover has accomplished a lot for its research mission in little over a year and a half on Mars. During a briefing held by the space agency on Thursday, the mission's early successes—rock samples and the detection of org…
How can the rotational speed of a whole planet alter in 20 years? That kind of shift takes hundreds of millions of years to occur. The Cassini Mission's discovery of electromagnetic signals that showed that Saturn rotates differently in its …
Astronomers have discovered a star system unlike any other: six stars paired up into three binary systems, all orbiting one another as a gigantic cluster. There are a handful of other sextuple star systems out there, according to The New York Tim…
