A spacecraft would rendezvous with a comet ... Previous Nassa missions, like Stardust launched in 1999, have collected comet dust during fly-bys. In 2016 Nasa will launch its Origins-Spectral ...

Physicists at CERN have achieved the ancient dream of turning other metals into gold, and they did it with physics, not magic ...

Sounds of a Comet Encounter: During its Feb. 14, 2011, flyby of comet Tempel 1, an instrument on the protective shield on NASA's Stardust spacecraft was pelted by dust particles and small rocks ...

We can’t fly you to the Moon, but we can do the next best thing – bring a piece of the Moon to you. Our Moon was formed when a baby planet collided with early Earth, flinging debris into orbit. That ...

NASA’s Stardust mission wasn’t originally built to question the origins of life, but its results may reshape that conversation. Tasked with collecting particles from comet Wild 2, Stardust performed a ...

Thanks to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars ... water loss over the last four billion years. While the MAVEN spacecraft provides most of the data used in this research, it isn't ...

For the moment, NASA indicates that the spacecraft's next targets are to encounter the asteroid Eurybates in August 2027, which will also involve an encounter with its satellite Queta.

of the half-ton spacecraft survived the fiery descent from orbit. (Pic used for representation)(source: NASA) The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled reentry ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...

May 10 (UPI) --A Soviet-area spacecraft that orbited Earth for more ... World Record Moon becomes little more out of reach for NASA's VIPER rover NASA garners two Emmy nominations for 2024 total ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...