After traveling for seven years and 4 billion miles, NASA's spacecraft returns a capsule to earth with a sample of rubble from the asteroid Bennu.

Queen's Brian May explains how a European mission called Hera could help asteroid experts better understand our options for saving ourselves, should an asteroid be headed our way.

WASHINGTON — An updated version of a space safety document endorsed by more than two dozen organizations includes “rules of the road” for avoiding collisions between space objects. The ...

July 14, 2004. System to monitor heat panels could safeguard future spacecraft. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Heat-shielding panels on future spacecraft could be constantly monitored from liftoff to landing ...

The monitor is one of two instruments on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, an orbiting observatory scheduled to launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Fla., in fall 2007.

The spacecraft will observe the sun's activity, such as storms and flares, ... India's Aditya-L1 spacecraft should wind up some 932,000 miles away to monitor our star. By Jon Kelvey.

New tech monitors local space weather and provides real-time data. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more. Your name. Note.

China is researching a miles-long spacecraft for long-term missions. The report noted that this particular effort is a part of a major strategic aerospace project, one that would ensure "the ...

If people are going to land on Mars in nine years, everything will have to go just according to Elon Musk's plans. On Friday, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk revealed more details of his plan to ...

News / Life / Science & Technology NASA outlines plan to down International Space Station in 2031 SpaceX, under $843 million contract, will shove structure out of orbit, into ocean ...

Screen image taken at Beijing Aerospace Control Center on March 27, 2022 shows the Shenzhou XIII astronauts watching the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft leaving the core module of China's Tiangong ...