Europa Clipper, which launched in October 2024, will get an energy boost around March 2025 when it flies by Mars, one of our closest neighbors. The spacecraft is slated to reach Jupiter in 2030, where ...

NASA warns of asteroid 2024 YR9, set to approach Earth tomorrow at 7:02 AM travelling at over 74,500 kilometres per hour.

Cratered surfaces across our solar system reveal signs of ancient impacts, but mysterious gullies on Vesta might have formed ...

RCW 120 is an emission nebula and it has a global magnetic field that runs parallel to the Galactic plane. NASA captured this beautiful image of Orion nebulae. This type of nebula forms when the ...

Want a quick and easy way to illustrate what opposition is for Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, or other outer worlds? Follow the ...

As part of its extensive slate of observations, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently took a closer look at Pluto’s ...

The only place in Illinois to see a NASA exhibit on the search for life on alien planets is the Joliet Public Library. And it ...

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the moon no sooner than April 2026. Astronauts were last ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky. A waning crescent moon means good ...

The spot we see today isn’t the same one the Italian astronomer Cassini discovered centuries ago, research shows.