The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

A Chilean space telescope has captured striking images of YR4 2024, the “city-killer” asteroid that’s potentially on a ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The large space rock, named 2024 YR4, could destroy a large city and kill millions of people if it smashed into the Earth in ...

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution imaging satellite for the company Blacksky toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18 ...

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

University of Iowa researchers found in a new study that images of Earth that kindle "blue marble awe" could create more ...

In an update issued on February 7, NASA said the probability of 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth had gone from around 1.2 percent (one-in-83) to 2.3 percent (one-in-43).

NASA has made it clear that despite the increase, the possibility is still “extremely low” that it will impact Earth. The agency recently said that new data suggests there is a 2% chance of ...

The volcanologist threw cold water on the defense potential of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which ...