The Rosetta-Philae mission was groundbreaking, but Philae’s landing on comet 67P didn’t go as planned. Why did the lander ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It was a car that was launched into space seven years ago. To be specific, it ...

Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid — only to realize that the supposed space rock was the remains of Elon Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster ...

The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades — including the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, NASA's Lucy probe, the joint European ...

Among the study's key findings were that air pollution inequalities can be measured from space. Satellite data analyzed by the research team revealed that NH 3 levels were significantly higher in ...

It is at the heart of our mission to achieve a world free of poverty on a livable planet. The World Bank Group is partnering with the African Development Bank and other partners on Mission 300, an ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said Starship ...

NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) in deep space at the L2 Lagrange point was added to the MPC's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) several times, while the Rosetta ...

This mix-up could have had serious consequences: What an amateur astronomer reported as an asteroid and was initially classified as such by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in ...