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

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

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

Why This 16th Asteroid Is the Most Wanted One Ever! ☄️✨ Scientists are going crazy over an asteroid called 16 Psyche, and for ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa ...

Vesta’s classification has vexed astronomers for decades, but a recent study is forcing planetary scientists to reevaluate ...

Asteroid Vesta, long considered a stalled protoplanet, may actually be a massive fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New findings based on gravity-field mapping and ...

Avengers: Doomsday has officially started production, beginning the countdown to the X-Men’s official entrance into the ...

Laurie Leshin has decided to step down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) effective Sunday, June 1. David Gallagher, who has been serving as the Lab’s associate director for ...

NASA has just pulled off a groundbreaking achievement that feels straight out of science fiction. A laser message from space ...