NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...

New developments in NASA electronics will lead to further interplanetary exploration

NASA is achieving new heights in technology as new, robust electronics can operate in vastly harsher planetary conditions.

Rare parade of planets to align in night sky, NASA says

Stargazers will soon have an opportunity to view six planets in alignment in the night sky, according to NASA. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will take part in a rare planetary ...
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NASA's DART planetary defense mission reveals asteroids hurling 'cosmic snowballs' at each other

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes ...

NASA’s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System’s Orbit Around the Sun

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...

NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...
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NASA’s Extrasolar Planet Tally Officially Hits The 6,000 Mark

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sep 18, 2025, 09:28pm EDT Sep 18, 2025, 09:29pm EDT Four ...
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NASA Finds 6,000th Alien Planet, 30 Years After Its First

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...
New York Post

How to see the six planets hanging out in the morning skies this month

Six planets are hanging out in the sky this month in what’s known as a planetary parade. Catch the spectacle while you can because it’s the last one of the year. These linkups happen when several ...

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.
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NASA Has Discovered 715 New Planets

NASA's Kepler mission, which has been searching the skies for Earth-like planets since 2009, has confirmed the discovery of a whopping 715 new planets orbiting around 305 stars. That bring the count ...
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NASA's Planet-Hunting Telescope Will Never Hunt Planets Again

On Thursday, NASA announced that they'd given up on repair attempts to the Kepler Space Telescope, after a second navigational wheel critical to the spacecraft's mission (there are four in total) ...