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 ...

The International Space ... NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, a bit farther from home (some 15.5 billion miles/24.9 billion km), NASA spent 2024 coaxing its Voyager 1 deep space probe to keep working for as long as its nuclear power supply lasts.

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

Dr Robin George Andrews, a volcanologist and author based in London, warns that 'we might not be able to stop 2024 YR4'.

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 ...