Chang’e-6 samples reveal how Earth's magnetosphere changed the solar wind reaching the Moon

The Moon’s two hemispheres have spent billions of years facing very different surroundings. Its far side looks away from ...
France 24

NASA successfully kicks asteroid off course in Earth defence test

NASA knocked an asteroid off course in 2022 in a pioneering test of humanity's ability to defend Earth. Its spacecraft's ...

NASA solves mystery of near-Earth object, finds it was a hidden comet

By using optical astrometry to precisely measure the object's position in the sky, researchers identified the reason behind ...
The Washington Post

NASA launches spacecraft to study how the sun protects, and disrupts, the Earth

Three new spacecraft successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, inaugurating missions to better understand the sun and its effects on Earth. One satellite is the ...
Business Insider

NASA Selects Rocket Lab to Launch Sun, Earth Sciences Missions

LONG BEACH, Calif., June 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rocket Lab Corporation (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has been selected by NASA to ...