Is a “temporary second moon” really going to orbit the Earth? That’s the claim made in a number of viral social media posts ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the ...

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per hour, a reminder of how busy and carefully watched our cosmic surroundings ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. NASA said this week that it was working ...

No joke: Science has found a new teeny, tiny moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced on Tuesday that the James Webb Space Telescope found yet another moon floating around Uranus, an ice giant that ...

A NASA video illustrates how the moon orbits the Earth in a process known as “synchronous tidal locking”. The Artemis II crew ...

NASA released new images of Saturn's rings showing "unprecedented detail." The images were captured by the Cassini spacecraft while it made ring-grazing orbits around the planet. The orbits began on ...

During their 167-day mission, the four crew members travelled nearly 71 million miles and completed more than 2 670 orbits ...