Scientists are urging NASA to act quickly on concepts for repurposing a pair of NASA smallsats to visit the asteroid Apophis ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

Over $165 billion is spent annually on fuel globally, driving engineers to develop innovative solutions like Aerodyne, an aerodynamic device for semi-trailers that reduces resistance by 10% and fuel ...

Launched in 2023 and currently traveling through space, NASA’s Psyche mission will explore a metallic asteroid. The Psyche asteroid likely contains platinum, nickel, iron and possibly gold—all ...

On the other hand, nature throws abundance at us without a price tag. One asteroid—Psyche 16—contains metal worth $100 sextillion, or 100,000 times global GDP. Somewhere in space, there's more money ...

WASHINGTON — A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about a very different threat: the impact of proposed NASA budget cuts.

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable feat ...

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were ...

The William M. Thomas Planetarium is closed for the summer break at Bakersfield College. On Friday, we celebrated the largest ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

The sets of Wes Anderson's new film, 'The Phoenician Scheme,' were crafted in Berlin's iconic Studio Babelsberg. True to form, Anderson unleashed his extravagance and obsession with detail. His ...