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After nearly 30 years, NASA realized this near-Earth asteroid is actually a comet

A seemingly ordinary asteroid has revealed its icy true identity — and new clues for spotting hidden hazards near Earth.

Far above the Earth, NASA’s Apollo lunar lander put astronauts on the moon

America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up Nearly 6 Billion Miles from Earth After Almost a Year in Hibernation

The hibernation began in August 2025, NASA said ...
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NASA VIPER moon rover prototype rolls down ramp in tests on Earth

Watch a prototype of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, (VIPER) roll down a ramp to simulate its ...

50 years ago, did NASA’s Viking landers destroy the Martian life they were searching for?

Nearly half a century after NASA’s Viking landers touched Mars, one question shadows their experiments: Did they miss life, ...

Scientists Believed This Near-Earth Object Was an Asteroid for 28 Years. They Were Wrong

In a study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of scientists reveals the true identity of a near-Earth object with an ...

You can see Mars as rarely viewed in new NASA spacecraft photos

On May 15, NASA’s Psyche used Mars as a slingshot on its lengthy journey to the main asteroid belt — and captured remarkable ...

Near-Earth asteroid turns out to be something unusual, NASA finds

A recent NASA study has revealed that a near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three decades ago is not, in fact, an asteroid, ...

Astronauts Marooned On Moon Could Be Abandoned Under Current NASA Plan

NASA’s masterplan for upcoming lunar landings has a flaw that could prove fatal to the U.S. astronauts set to touch down on ...

Here's What's On The Golden Record, NASA's Message To Aliens Carried By The Voyager Probes

Sagan's team created the greatest puzzle of all time, which you can only solve if your species understands the basic nature ...

China plans to smash spacecraft onto asteroid in major test to protect Earth

Chinese astronomers are planning to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid by 2030 in a test of methods of defend the Earth from potentially cataclysmic space rocks. Nasa’s 2022 Dart test successfully ...

We’re Underestimating the Power of ‘One-in-a-Thousand-Year’ Solar Storms, NASA Warns

New research led by NASA Goddard found persistent “erroneous measurements” skewing past estimates for how severe geomagnetic ...