The maneuver brings Firefly's lunar lander one step closer to its planned March 2 landing.
2024 YR4's odds jumped to a 1-in-32 chance of impact, though that number will likely fall as the asteroid continues to be monitored.
NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.
The Lunar Trailblazer will leverage gravity as it prepares to get snagged by the Moon for orbit.
The X-59 is proving out the agency's quiet supersonic technology, and looking great in the process.
The first-of-its-kind lunar explorer will search for water ice, as it bounces in and out of craters.
The iridescent cloud reveals new clues about ice formation in the Martian atmosphere (no little green men, sorry).
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how much could already be here.
The company recently debuted its New Glenn rocket, which could rival SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.
Blue Ghost fired its engines to escape Earth's gravitational tug and begin its journey to the Moon.
Cameron County, Texas, is set to hold an election in May after SpaceX employees petitioned to make Starbase an official city.
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
To comply with Trump's executive order about DEI, a federally funded telescope project has altered the biography of its namesake astronomer.
Engineers developed an engine prototype which could reach unprecedented speeds, cutting down interplanetary travel time.
The odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth are shifting, with the space rock now carrying a 1-in-48 chance of collision.
The company cited "revisions to the Artemis program" as the reason behind the pending 400 job cuts.
A super-Neptune orbiting a star is zipping through space at 1.2 million miles per hour—or potentially faster.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.2% chance of striking Earth in seven years, but recent updates keep pushing the odds in the wrong direction.
The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's power.
An edge-on protoplanetary disk looks like two force fields smashing together in deep space.
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