Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...

NASA has led in low Earth orbit for 25 years and counting. Now, as we prepare for deorbiting the International Space Station in 2030, we’re calling on our commercial space partners to maintain ...

Amid the season with at least one meteor shower occurring every night, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may become visible to us ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

White dwarfs may still host habitable planets. Conditions like tidal heating and migration shape their potential for life. The Sun will eventually die. This will occur when it exhausts the hydrogen ...

The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is being launched later this month to study the outer reaches of the heliosphere which defines where our solar system ends and interstellar space ...

Discover Our Solar System Through Detailed 3D Models Forget dusty textbooks and flat diagrams. We’re talking about ...

The pilots will have five chances to snag the capsule in midair. Military pilots were unavailable for a mission that required ...

Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth's ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The debate over the existence of extraterrestrial life touches literature, religion, and science in 17th century Europe.

An asteroid that was about100 feet wide named 2025 QV9 made a close but safe flyby of Earth on Sunday, 7 September. Experts ...