NASA launches NF-5, revolutionizing planetary missions with advanced technology to explore new horizons on the Moon and in ...

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Way back in April of 2024, observers at a small telescope in Chile reported a very faint speck hurtling toward the Sun. It was a comet, the icy siblings of asteroids ...

The Comet Surface Sample Return would do the same ... with the timeframe for the sixth iteration of the program. Thus, NASA requested the National Academies “investigate and report on any ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. For several days in ...

And both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have developed automated software programs that can, with extreme precision, track every single potentially hazardous asteroid and comet found to ...

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