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The space object that NASA is going to slam with a spacecraft in a few years to test its planetary defense systems finally has an official name. Previously known as Didymos B, the object will now be known as Dimorphos (Greek for “having two forms”),...

Space explorers planning to dispatch robotic craft to explore freezing mini world’s concealed oceans. EUROPA is a frozen moon of Jupiter which looks totally inhospitable and barren, but might be hiding an amazing secret. Nasa believes there’s a gigantic ocean locked beneath its frozen surface...

A new solar-sailing spacecraft will be a call to all (future) occupants of interplanetary craft. The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 spacecraft will be a test bed for future missions wanting to use solar sails — including NASA’s proposed cubesat, the Near-Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout)....

The next time a hazardous asteroid lines Earth up in its crosshairs, we may be ready for the threat. Scientists and engineers with the U.S. government have drawn up plans for a spacecraft that could knock big, incoming space rocks off course via blunt-force impact...

Wow, what a way to ring in the new year. As the world celebrated the start of 2019, scientists with NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft partied with them. But the bigger celebration came just over 30 minutes later, when New Horizons made history with the flyby...

It’s fifty times faster than a speeding bullet. At 3:21 p.m. (EDT), NASA’S Juno Mission spacecraft will slingshot around Earth towards Jupiter, accelerating to 25 miles per second along the way and becoming the fastest man-made object in history. A .50-caliber bullet travels at about...

When you cut yourself, it’s amazing to watch how quickly your body acts to mend the wound. Immediately, your body works to pull the skin around the cut back together. If you have a scar, you can see the evidence of our bodies’ self-healing power....

As the space industry continues to cut costs by using lightweight materials and alternative types of energy, it is opening up the possibility that you and I may one day have the opportunity to live in space. The idea of a colony on the moon...

The Kepler space telescope , NASA’s dedicated exoplanet hunter, has provided a new look at the gas giant Neptune, and the observations could reveal more about much farther worlds that lie outside our solar system. Neptune passed into Kepler’s field of view between November 2014...

Astronauts face myriad dangers in space, and at least one is perfectly familiar to the earthbound: cancer. The risk is so escalated that it stands firmly in the way of deep-space exploration. A European Union-funded research group is working to fix that. The European Space...