See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / ...

Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032.

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have been six to nine miles in length. On the other hand, on Feb. 15, 2013, an ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

Tariq is the Editor-in-Chief of ... as seen from Earth. What we'll see is only half of the half of the moon (a quarter) that will be illuminated in this phase. According to NASA, the last quarter ...

YR4, a potential “city-killer,” has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032—but scientists say it might strike the Moon ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...