By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Mission commander, U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, who has rich experience in space travel, is taking the necklace that she ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the European Space Agency said.

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists ...

Discover how NASA’s James Webb Telescope unveiled GJ 1214 b, an exoplanet possibly rich in water vapour and hidden beneath ...

What do a wedding necklace, Polish savory dumplings and a photo of Hungary’s first astronaut have in common? They will all be ...

As if Los Angeles doesn't have enough to contend with in the aftermath of its catastrophic fires, NASA is now warning slow landslides are accelerating to threaten hundreds of buildings on the Palos ...

The UN has activated planetary defense protocols for the first time to better determine the orbit, size, and threat posed by 2024 YR4, a rock discovered on December 27 that has a 1.6% chance of ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.