The lunar mission also marked the United State's return to the moon for the first time in more than five decades since NASA's Apollo era came to an end. The lunar lander, which could launch this ...

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere ...

NEOWISE was a game-changing mission, as it revolutionized how to survey near-Earth objects. The NEOWISE mission continued to use the spacecraft from NASA’s WISE mission, which ran from late 2009 to ...

Following the hibernation period, NASA decided to reactivate the WISE spacecraft under the NEOWISE mission, with a more specialized focus on detecting near-Earth objects, which was still feasible ...

A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that very large question.

The cryogenic phase lasted from 2009 to 2011, until the spacecraft went into hibernation in 2011. Following the hibernation period, NASA decided to reactivate the WISE spacecraft under the NEOWISE ...