A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Why did Earth ... a pin jammed. Mission control delivered a mechanical shock that helped the antenna to unfold. In January 2024, researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA ...

The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.

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

The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour.

Both spacecraft had since been orbiting ... NASA," Firefly said. Blue Ghost has "merged" onto the highway to the Moon! After a successful Trans Lunar Injection burn, our lander has left Earth's ...

As of February 7, NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies calculates that the nearly 300-foot-wide asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 2.3 percent chance of hitting Earth on December 22, 2032 ...

An amateur photographer on Earth has captured an extremely rare photo of "stranded" NASA astronaut Suni Williams floating ... The astronaut pair could now spend a total of more than 300 days orbiting ...

NASA and the Europeans Space Agency are among the world's space agencies developing methods of protecting Earth from inbound ... which is a tiny moonlet asteroid orbiting the larger 2,560-foot ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

PATERSON — City high school students later this year will be speaking with astronauts orbiting Earth about 250 miles out in space. That long-distance connection will take place through the ...

What is the 'alien' that has been found near the South Pole? NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just ...