The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking Earth eight years from now.
The space station and one other Easter egg — the site of NASA's next human moon landing — are hidden in this lucky photo.
Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...
The ‘city killer’ asteroid (possibly) heading our way might spare us and slam into the Moon instead, scientists said. The ...
NASA responded to news that Boeing aims to lay off up to 400 workers from its Space Launch System program. The SLS rocket ...
Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...
Space exploration should be for all countries and for the benefit of all mankind.  More or less, that’s what the Outer Space ...
In Islamabad's first major involvement in lunar exploration, Pakistan's space agency SUPARCO has joined hands with China for ...
Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...
Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the lunar far side.