Far from Earth, a small robotic explorer has just delivered a surprise that planetary scientists have never seen up close ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WLBT) - A faculty member from Mississippi State University has discovered a new asteroid, a first for the Magnolia State. Jean-François Gout, an assistant professor of biological ...

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Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This animation illustrates the orbit of 2010 TK7 (green dots), the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by ...

Satellites and instruments placed at Lagrange points remain in a stable position because the gravitational forces from the Earth and sun balance each other, requiring only minimal energy for ...

July 25 (UPI) --Senegal has become the 56th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful space exploration, NASA announced Friday. Signing the Artemis Accords means to explore peaceably and ...

NASA's Lucy mission is key to helping us understand the early history of our solar system as it studies asteroids like the Donaldjohanson. Named after the paleoanthropologist who co-discovered the ...

NASA’s Lucy mission continues to analyze images collected during the spacecraft’s April 20, 2025 encounter with the carbonaceous asteroid Donaldjohanson. Donaldjohanson is located in the inner regions ...

NASA has released new images of a peculiarly shaped space object with an equally offbeat name, in high-resolution photos that reveal a full-frame view of the asteroid Donaldjohanson. The images, ...