The Latest Breaking News from NASA

Theory of inner satellite ripped apart by gas giant’s gravity 100-200m years ago also explains rings’ relative youth

The collision will occur around 20 million miles away in a test of the planet's ability to defend itself

The space mission is part of an effort to deflect dangerous objects from the planet.

The space agency are attempting to change the trajectory of the moonlet in what is a historic global defence experiment

The would-be Moon rocket could fly in just two weeks — but it needs to pass yet another wet dress rehearsal for NASA to feel sure that it's ready.

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA is pushing back a test of fixes on the launch pad for Artemis I to later in September, which has taken one potential launch date off the board.

The space firm founded by Jeff Bezos and the FAA are investigating how a rocket’s booster exploded and failed after launching on the 23rd New Shepard mission, which had aimed to send Nasa experiments to the edge of the cosmos to float for a few minutes in microgravity.

The Dawn mission used state-of-the-art ion thrusters to change orbits between bodies in visits to Vesta and Ceres, two Solar System time capsules.

NASA is now targeting September 27 as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the agency said in a blog post Monday. The date would depend on engineering teams successfully carrying out a test to fuel up the Space Launch System rocket, and…