LOS ANGELES: Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, ...

Multiple people familiar with the White House proposal said cuts to NASA's "Science Mission Directorate" could be as high as 50 percent. These sources emphasized that no decisions are final, and there ...

Today NASA said that the Dawn spacecraft has fallen out of contact with Earth, presumably because it’s run out of the thruster… Read More The once-mysterious bright spots shining on the surface of the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a ...

Scientists estimate that around 9 known exoplanets are ideally placed to track the Earth's 'transit zones'. Orion is destined to take humans "father into space than we've ever gone", officials said.

Before New Horizons, Pluto was thought to be an icy, inert body. However, the spacecraft revealed that the dwarf planet has a geologically active surface, with glaciers, mountains and even possible ...

As the images came back from New Horizons in 2015, showing us Pluto for the very first time, the dramatic shots of the dwarf planet inspired the imaginations of billions. Having actually seen the ...

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The UK should hitch its cosmic wagon to the European space agency and contribute more cash to the intergovernmental body, professor Brian Cox, musician, media luvvie and Manchester University particle ...