Nearly a decade ago, an explosion on the sun "contained components of three different types of solar eruptions". Studying the eruption could unlock mysteries on how they occur. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...

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

In 2007, the Rosetta spacecraft was accidentally designated asteroid 2007 VN84 while it was on its way to make the first-ever landing on a comet. The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to ...

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 ...

Billionaire Elon Musk vowed Tuesday to bring home the two astronauts who have been stuck in space for about eight months “as soon as possible” – and blasted the Biden White House for not ...

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 ...

The founder of SpaceX said President Trump had asked his company to return two astronauts aboard the space station to Earth “as soon as possible.” NASA said it would do that “as soon as ...

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, President Trump reiterated the remark, saying “the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration.” ...

India just launched its first mission of 2025. The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on schedule ...

A new image from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission shows the spacecraft’s first glimpse of the moon. Launched nearly two weeks ago, the spacecraft is headed to the moon where it aims to ...

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 spacecraft ...