While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is ...

The pillars are each a staggering 4-5 light-years in ... largest telescope (photos) Tuesday, February 4, 2025: Hubble definitely hit the target with this one. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

NASA swapped out the astronaut capsule it plans to use for an upcoming routine flight to the International Space Station ...

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

An image captured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) when it discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 ... d have plenty of notice. Space agencies like NASA and the European Space ...