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The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Mantis Space closed a $10 million seed round to develop laser-based solar power transmission for satellites operating in the shadow of the Earth.

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According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

The merger of xAI and SpaceX, the efforts by some startups, and research by Google have raised the question of when there ...

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

"Follow the water" has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally, for decades. If you want to find life, it makes sense to look for the universal solvent that ...

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.