It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn ...
Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
In January, the European Space Agency (ESA) shut down Gaia's science operations, as the spacecraft's fuel reserves were ...
Surveyor, a $1.4-billion infrared telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could pose a threat to Earth. Expected to launch in 2027, the mission aims to identify 90% of potentially ...
After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.
Astronomers have identified the source of strange radio flashes: a binary system containing a white dwarf, the remnant of a Sun-like star.
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...