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

YR4, a near-Earth asteroid has a one-in-45 chance of hitting Planet Earth in December 2032, NASA and the European Space ...

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

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.

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made.

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

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

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

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a Jan. 10 statement. "Between ...

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 ...

YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

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