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 ...

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

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

The tiny fluctuations we perceive as chorus waves are produced by plasma instabilities, unstable distributions of charged particles flowing along Earth’s magnetic field lines. Because they can ...

The rocket's payload of 21 satellites was deployed to low-Earth orbit, where they will join the growing constellation of thousands of Starlink satellites that provide high-speed, low-latency ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...

And Southern Hemisphere observers ... 600 million kilometres from Earth and the Sun. In the days following the comet's discovery, astronomers worked out its orbit — and it turned out to be ...

The comet made its closest approach to Earth ... Southern Hemisphere. However, it could also be seen from the International Space Station (ISS). "It is totally amazing to see a comet from orbit ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon. Its characteristics led scientists to ask: is it a chip off the old lunar block, ...

Blue Origin, the space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its massive New Glenn rocket into orbit for the first time early Thursday ... floating space platforms in order to preserve ...

The Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin sent its massive new rocket into space Thursday — and carried a prototype satellite into orbit thousands of miles above the Earth’s surface. The seven-engine ...

Named after John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, it's designed to carry payloads to various orbits, including geostationary orbit and beyond. This first flight, designated NG-1, was a ...