Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists ...

Kornmesser For the first time, scientists have developed a 3D map of an atmosphere belonging to a planet outside ...

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

Lunar Trailblazer's voyage to the Moon will take between four and seven months, de-pending on the day it launches. This ...

A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

In 2022, NASA's DART mission ("Double Asteroid Redirection Test") successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos about 7 ...

The rise of the "Snow Moon" today sets in motion a lunar orbit that will result in a total lunar eclipse for North America on ...