The world now has stunning new photos of this week’s asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind. NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. A few hours later, SpaceX joined NASA in […]

NASA and SpaceX last week agreed to an unfunded study to investigate the feasibility of boosting the Hubble Space Telescope, which is at risk of falling out of orbit in the next decade, into a higher orbit.  SpaceX approached NASA earlier this year about potentially […]

A trove of fossils found in China includes the world’s oldest teeth found, along with fossils that could give scientists insight as to how today’s aquatic creatures evolved.  The fossils were originally found by a field team in 2019 after a frustrating trip during which […]

Later this week, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come the closest it has been in decades to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon, Europa. The agency believes Juno will obtain the highest-resolution pictures of Europa’s surface while gathering key data about the moon’s surface compositions and interior. Juno is […]

A volcanic eruption created a new but possibly fickle island in the middle of the South Pacific sea.  An underwater volcano next to the island kingdom of Tonga erupted in early September, causing oozing lava to rise to the surface. The expelled steam and water […]

The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on Monday deliberately slammed into an asteroid millions of miles away in an innovative test for a possible killer rock that could one day be headed to Earth.  NASA described the mission as an “impact success,” saying […]

NASA says it is holding off a decision on whether to launch Artemis I on Tuesday as preparations for a possible rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building continue.  Planners suggested on Saturday that they were pulling the plug on the launch attempt of its Artemis […]

There are just two days until the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately crashes into a faraway asteroid.  The Monday mission is humanity’s first attempt to change the motion of an asteroid in space by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into it.  The agency says […]

A 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rattled Mexico on Monday sent shockwaves that triggered a “desert tsunami” in a cave system 1,500 miles away in Death Valley National Park in Nevada, officials said. The quake rocked Mexico’s central Pacific coast, killing at least one person. About […]

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured Neptune in a whole new light.  The $10 billion-dollar NASA observatory captured the clearest view of the ice planet’s rings in more than 30 years.  Some of the planet’s rings have not been detected since NASA’s Voyager 2 […]