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.

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid close to Earth. Turns out, it was a car.

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, made its closest approach on January 8, 2025. Flying 295 km above Mercury, ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of ... [+] the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from ...