With over 5,000 exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — discovered to date, there's a growing interest in locating which of these planets might be habitable. It's no easy matter to find a ...
China is targeting a small non-threatening near-Earth asteroid for a daring attempt to run into it at high speeds and move it off its course. The Chinese asteroid deflection test could happen as early ...
A technology called Dynamic Targeting could enable spacecraft to decide, autonomously and within seconds, where to best make science observations from orbit. In a recent test, NASA showed how ...