When it passed through the Solar System, for example, the asteroid accelerated beyond what we would expect from gravity alone ...

Psyche is on its way to a unique metal-rich asteroid, of the same name, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. NASA is hopeful Psyche will be able to confirm the asteroid has an exposed nickel ...

To solve this and other mysteries, we needed a sun-grazing space probe. That spacecraft — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — launched in 2018. As it loops around the sun, dipping in and out of the solar ...

The Earth had a near miss with an asteroid that left a 14-mile wide crater on the Moon - with the impact creating a "weird quasi moon" that was discovered in 2016, scientists belive. Space rock ...

Earlier in February, NASA hosted a workshop to seek ideas from the private sector “on innovative approaches to conduct missions during the Earth flyby of the asteroid Apophis in 2029.” ...

Here’s a look at high-profile recent and upcoming attempts, and… NASA has included international ... The spacecraft is named for the metal-rich asteroid it's chasing, which scientists believe ...

Analysis of asteroid Ryugu samples hints at its surface ... A micrometeoroid refers to a particle tinier than a grain of sand. As per NASA, millions of micrometeoroids strike Earth’s atmosphere ...

Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have tracked the dark spots dappling its radiant face, while in recent decades, ...

Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see its light every day. For centuries, scientists have tracked the dark spots dappling its radiant face, while in recent decades, ...

Nell Greenfieldboyce is a NPR science correspondent. With reporting focused on general science, NASA, and the intersection between technology and society, Greenfieldboyce has been on the science ...