The team compiled what they describe as a "catalogue of opportunity" - a shortlist of worlds sitting in the so-called habitable zone, where conditions may allow liquid water to exist.

A mission that aims to take humans on their first lunar flyby for decades, Artemis II is due to set off for the Moon this spring.

This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the fragmenting comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was taken over the course of three consecutive days – November. 8, 9, and 10 last year (Picture: NASA/Cover Media) NASA astronomers struck it lucky after the Hubble Space Telescope observed a comet in the act of disintegrating completely by chance.

Crew-11 has been on the International Space Station since August last year and was due to return around May this year, but will now come home in the coming days. NASA will bring back a crew from the ISS earlier than planned because of a medical issue.

One woman reportedly said a meteorite hit her home.

NASA now believes that a meteor was the cause of the loud “booms" heard across Houston on Saturday. They also say pieces of that meteor could still be in the area.

Neil Armstrong photos from NASA's 1966 Gemini 8 emergency splashdown near Japan are now public, donated to the Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio.