Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

On Sept. 28, the spacecraft began to use its propulsion system nearly continuously, pausing just once each week to check in ...

A sweeping barred spiral galaxy marks the spot in this image, but the real treasure is the gravitational lens in the ...

NASA contributed to this first-of-its-kind mission that may help us understand how our solar system formed.

The planet Mercury is the smallest member of our solar system’s eight planets. However, its small size (4,880 kilometres in ...

Japan launches a ground-breaking mission to the Mars moon Phobos today, and you can watch live. The JAXA (Japan Aerospace ...

On Oct. 16, 2021, NASA's Lucy spacecraft began its journey to the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids with an ...

NASA ambassador Pat Monteith will discuss the unique challenges of gardening in space at a free Brockton event.

With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is ...

Phobos, it seems, is not long for this universe - at least on the large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long known that ...

After all, Degroot can write beautifully. Venus is “not only hotter than an oven, but hot enough to melt an oven”, while a ...