The image was captured on May 14 as the asteroid-bound spacecraft approaches Mars could be mistaken for an eclipse.

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The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs ...

A NASA spacecraft chasing a rare metal asteroid is swinging past Mars for a gravity boost. The Psyche spacecraft will slingshot past the red planet at more than 12,000 mph Friday.

Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...

NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...

Antarctic ice contains evidence that Earth entered an interstellar dust cloud more than 40,000 years ago 1. As the Solar ...

Using a new technique that partly relies on artificial intelligence, researchers spotted potentially more than 10,000 new ...

When most people picture food production on the Moon or on Mars, the mental image is a row of green photobioreactors — ...

A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks ...