To map out complex space trajectories, scientists rely on powerful numerical simulations—tools now central to the work of agencies like NASA and ESA. The recent discovery of comet 3I/Atlas offers a ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

NASA has selected two Colorado companies to help develop a future NASA space telescope that will look for signs of life on other planets. The flagship project, called the Habitable Worlds Observatory, ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

KEY OBSERVATIONS A comet’s tail is supposed to flee the Sun, driven outward by radiation and solar wind. That rule has held ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

At 1.36 astronomical units from the Sun, 3I/ATLAS picked up speed in a way that standard comet physics does not comfortably ...

ChibaTech's instrument package includes a multiband imaging camera onboard the ExLabs mothership and deployable Cubesat-shaped landers (called CubeLanders), designed to study the asteroid's surface ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

What: Ultraviolet observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft while the ...