In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to test whether NASA could one day ...

Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this discovery contradicts observations of the distant gas giant made by NASA's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WISE, NEOWISE's predecessor mission, imaged the entire sky in the mid-infrared range. NASA/JPL/Caltech/UCLA The NASA project ...

Over recent decades, human exploration of planetary bodies has evolved into a complex, multidisciplinary endeavour that combines human ingenuity with advanced technology. Pioneering missions have ...

Future space exploration missions demand increasingly refined investigations of the internal structure of the Moon, Mars, small bodies, and icy satellites, which in turn poses higher requirements on ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Implications of Planetary Protection Category I Versus Category II for Small Body Missions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Planetary ...

NASA released Sept. 21 an image of Neptune taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing storms in the planet's atmosphere and its ring system. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI HELSINKI — Scientists ...

Small bodies in the solar system have preserved information from different eras of the evolution of our solar system, from the composition of the presolar nebula that is preserved in cometary nuclei ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal tides ...

An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office SALT LAKE CITY — Two mission concepts are seeking funding to fly by and ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...