Apophis is racing toward us - but NASA knows what to do

The massive, 1,100-foot-wide asteroid Apophis is currently hurtling toward Earth at an astonishing 19 miles per second, ...

New Orlando Museum of Art exhibit journeys through time and space

Dennis Scholl’s artwork on view at Orlando Museum of Art is inspired by NASA and space, but also serves as a voyage through ...
The Huntington News

‘Refraction: A day of perspective’: TEDxNortheasternU conference highlights how challenge shapes growth

Innovative insights buzzed through the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex Feb. 21 during TEDxNortheasternU’s ...
Popular Science

NASA spots Florida’s ocean waters changing color

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most people understandably focus on freezing temperatures and the ...
The New York Times

Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. By Katrina Miller In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a ...
Florida Today

NASA craft that crashed into asteroid also altered orbit of 2nd space rock

NASA's DART mission, which tested a planetary defense strategy, successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The mission also unexpectedly altered the orbit of Dimorphos's larger ...
Detroit Free Press

A NASA satellite is crashing. See location, timeline

A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is hurtling back toward Earth, but don't worry, it's expected to fall in open waters. Van Allen Probe A, a satellite used to survey Earth's permanent radiation belts, is ...
The New York Times

‘Don’t Worry About It’: NASA Satellite to Burn Up in Fall to Earth

Most of the Van Allen Probe A, in orbit since 2012, will incinerate in Earth’s atmosphere, NASA said. But some pieces are expected to survive, posing a small risk to people on the ground. By Michael ...
CNET

A 1,300-Pound NASA Satellite Just Made a Fiery Return to Earth

All things that go up must eventually come down. NASA says that its Van Allen Probe A satellite has fallen precipitously back to Earth after a 14-year journey through space. The probe reentered the ...
Engadget

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Hubble spots nearly invisible “ghost galaxy” made of 99% dark matter

Astronomers have uncovered one of the most mysterious galaxies ever found — a dim, ghostly object called CDG-2 that is almost entirely made of dark matter. Located 300 million light-years away in the ...
Nature

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

Weeks after the US Congress rejected unprecedented cuts to science budgets that the administration of US President Donald Trump had sought for 2026, funding to several agencies that award research ...