NASA has issued a pause for several key scientific committees following President Trump's executive orders to end DEI in ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to build the EnVision spacecraft that will unveil Venus’ deepest mysteries •           As prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space ...

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

On January 2, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of the unique asteroid 2018 CN41, but soon had to remove the ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, including its awful space weather ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

The BepiColombo spacecraft will start orbiting Mercury in 2026. Right now, it's conducting a series of flybys of the planet to get into position for that orbit. On Jan. 8, one of those flybys ...