Former astronaut Mike Massimino breaks down NASA's latest scientific mission to explore the galaxies. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

"We will look at everything in the sky and get a spectrum for every pixel no matter what is there – comets in our Solar System, planets, stars, galaxies," says Olivier Doré, an astrophysicist at ...

With further observations, experts at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies determined “more precise models” of the asteroid’s trajectory show “there is ...

“I knew this was likely to go away as we collected more data,” said Davide Farnocchia, a navigation engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. “I was sleeping pretty well.

But according to the latest calculations from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, there is a 0.004% chance of the asteroid striking Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. NASA on Feb. 24 said, "There is no ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a small but powerful satellite, is set to launch Wednesday evening. Its mission? To map and analyze lunar water deposits and help scientists understand how water ...

But in the Oort Cloud, the galactic tide becomes a dominant factor. Using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer, the team ran simulations incorporating the galactic tide and other effects over billions of ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch ...

"SPHEREx is a testament to doing big science with a small telescope," Beth Fabinsky, the deputy project manager of SPHEREx at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told reporters last month.

Deanne Fisher receives funding from the Australian Research Council. NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made.

The mission is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The launch was originally scheduled for Feb. 27 but had been pushed back for additional prelaunch checkouts and availability of launch ...

The chances a ‘city killer’ asteroid will crash into Earth in seven years’ time have fallen, NASA has said. Scientists have kept an eye on the ‘near-Earth asteroid’, named 2024 YR4 ...