NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...

2 planets collide 11,000 light-years from Earth in rare sight

Astronomers witnessed planets colliding 11,000 light-years away, an event that could shed light on the collision that created ...

New developments in NASA electronics will lead to further interplanetary exploration

NASA is achieving new heights in technology as new, robust electronics can operate in vastly harsher planetary conditions.
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NASA's DART planetary defense mission reveals asteroids hurling 'cosmic snowballs' at each other

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes ...

Rare parade of planets to align in night sky, NASA says

Stargazers will soon have an opportunity to view six planets in alignment in the night sky, according to NASA. Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter will take part in a rare planetary ...

NASA’s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System’s Orbit Around the Sun

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...

NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...
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NASA Finds 6,000th Alien Planet, 30 Years After Its First

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...
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NASA’s Extrasolar Planet Tally Officially Hits The 6,000 Mark

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sep 18, 2025, 09:28pm EDT Sep 18, 2025, 09:29pm EDT Four ...

NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Shows How To Make Jupiter Replica In A Bubble At International Space Station [WATCH]

The largest of all planets in the Solar System, Jupiter is a gas giant with a mass that is twice the size of all other planets combined. You may have learned in your school science text that if it ...