This suggests that when the South Pole-Aitken impactor hit, it gouged deep into the Moon, generating intense heat. This ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Green aurora can be seen dancing in Earth 's upper atmosphere as the zodiacal light fades, shimmering between the profiles of ...

Humans may, one day, be able to inhabit other planets. Some advocates argue that remaining on only one courts disaster.

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

Just days into the New Year, on January 6, NASA will begin spacewalks outside the International Space Station to prepare for ...

Space has captured human imagination for centuries. Yet along with our fascination, countless misconceptions have spread like ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for.

NEW ORLEANS — There’s about a 4 percent chance that a building-sized asteroid will hit the moon in 2032. Moreover, there’s about a 1 percent chance that the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, will not only ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of ...