An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides with the Moon. The impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 into the lunar surface would ...

NASA has spent decades obsessed with asteroids and for good reason. These ancient space rocks aren’t just debris; they’re ...

July, this Nasa-Isro satellite project aligns well with India’s strategic focus on near-earth opportunities. There’s plenty ...

Using open-source software, experts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison figured out a testing flaw that often led to rovers getting stuck on alien surfaces.

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Loeb points to several unusual traits that set 3I/ATLAS apart from typical comets. "The retrograde orbital plane of 3I/ATLAS ...

To celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing on Sunday (July 20) Pope Leo visited the domes of the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo, where he was given a tour of the telescopes and ...

Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

A group of private astronauts are journeying home through outer space after spending a little more than two weeks at the ...

The September 2022 collision of a spacecraft into the asteroid moon Dimorphos completely changed the space rock’s orbit.

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...