Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The U.S. space agency NASA is using virtual reality (VR) technology to train crew, flight controllers and ...

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore thought they were taking off for a couple weeks in space. Their mission was to test Boeing’s ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

The extra column this month was spurred by the global news of the probability of an impact by asteroid 2024 YR4 in 2032 ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

The Hera probe has swung around Mars, using the planet’s gravitational pull to fling itself toward its asteroid target. During its brief rendezvous with the Red Planet, Hera caught a glimpse of the ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon.

The best case scenario is that the asteroid will pass within just 167,000 miles of our planet; the moon is 238,855 miles away, according to Space.com. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is just one of more than a ...

College students, rocket scientists and math enthusiasts around the world are celebrating Pi Day. The holiday on March 14 — ...