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Students at Animo Legacy Charter Middle School in South Los Angeles had the opportunity Wednesday to meet and listen to Dr. Jose Hernandez, the farm worker turned NASA astronaut whose story is an inspiration to many.

Astronomers have discovered six planets orbiting a bright, nearby star in perfect synchrony. The rare find, announced Wednesday, can help explain how solar systems across the Milky Way galaxy came to be.

While not the most active meteor shower of the year, the Leonids can still produce around 15 shooting stars per hour under clear conditions

In September, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought the largest, unadulterated asteroid sample ever collected to Earth. The director of the University of Hartford’s Aerospace Engineering Program explains what scientist are learning about the origins of Earth from the sample.

Mattingly’s greatest legacy was his work on the ground in 1970, in support of Apollo 13.

NASA launched its Psyche spacecraft Friday, marking the start of its 2.2-billion-mile journey to an asteroid.

The Psyche mission is the first time the space agency has sent a probe to a world primarily made of metal, rather than rocks and ice.

The findings could help scientists understand how the solar system formed and how life started on Earth.

On Wednesday, NASA showed off samples that the Osiris-Rex spacecraft collected from a carbon-rich asteroid located almost 60 million miles away.

The photos show Pan, the innermost of Saturn’s known moons.

“Ravioli, pierogi, empanada…What do you see? No wrong answers,” NASA wrote in an Instagram post.

Luxury fashion company Prada and Axiom Space have announced a partnership on NASA’s lunar spacesuits for the Artemis III mission.

A NASA astronaut and two Russians are back on Earth after being stuck in space for just over a year.

A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert.

For the first time, the U.S. is bringing an asteroid sample back to Earth. The mission has taken 7 years to get to this point, and a Bloomfield-based company is playing a big role in how the asteroid sample makes it back to the ground.

On Oct. 14, an annular eclipse will be visible to millions of people in the Western Hemisphere.

Michael Peña stars in the film inspired by the real-life story of NASA flight engineer José Hernández.

NASA discussed the findings from an unidentified anomalous phenomena, known as UAP’s or UFO’s, report from an independent study team it commissioned in 2022.

The space agency released findings Thursday after a yearlong study into UFOs.