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By Celine Smith

The Psyche mission will examine a metal-rich asteroid believed to have once been a planetary building block.

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated its annual tree-lighting ceremony in the courtyard of Building 4221 on Nov 30.

The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s

A newly discovered asteroid satellite has been christened by the International Astronomical Union just a month after its discovery.

DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved first light, sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for the first time. NASAs Deep Space Optical...

DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for

Many members of the workforce at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and Michoud Assembly Facility served in the U.S. Armed Forces before beginning their NASA

NASAs Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the asteroid.

The NASA mission hit the jackpot with its first target, observing the first known contact binary asteroid in orbit.