As an end-member of terrestrial planet formation, Mercury holds unique clues about the original distribution of elements in the earliest stages of solar system development and how planets and ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – On Monday, NASA successfully crashed into an asteroid with a spacecraft. Before we talk about the mission, we want to make something clear: there is not an asteroid heading for ...

On December 6th, Odyssey Moon, the first team to complete registration for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE, will unveil its plans to land the first private robotic mission on the Moon. The Planetary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Planetary Guardians at the launch of their new initiative during New York Climate Week on Monday ( Christopher Farber, photo ...

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. DART’s on board DRACO imager captured this image from a distance of 42 miles (68 kilometers). This image was the ...

The year 2023 proved to be an important one for space missions, with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returning a sample from an asteroid and India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission exploring the lunar south pole, and ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...

NASA has released its monthly skywatching update on what to look out for over the coming weeks, and you can probably guess ...

HOUSTON—The concept of planetary protection—the prevention of life forms on other planets from infecting Earth and preventing terrestrial life forms from contaminating other worlds—has a long history.

Nancy Chabot, mission lead for NASA’s test, says deflecting, not destroying, asteroids is the best way to prevent a future collision. Last night, NASA completed a first-of-its kind mission to steer a ...

The results of NASA’s ambitious DART planetary mission are in, and the results are very good indeed. In a historic announcement on Tuesday, the space agency confirmed that for the first time, humanity ...