ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

Three dozen scientists from all over the world have been in Galesburg this summer tracking near-earth asteroids and charting ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new ...

A massive asteroid heads toward Earth with increasing impact probability for 2032. NASA deploys the James Webb Telescope to ...

A flash captured on the morning of July 5 could become a milestone in the history of astronomy. NASA collaborator Mario Rana ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...

John Sandusky, a scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, stands in the field of heliostats at the National Solar Thermal ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in ...

An extraordinary celestial event could unfold in the night sky in less than a decade if an asteroid passing Earth collides with the Moon. The impact of asteroid 2024 YR4 into the lunar surface would ...

Pacific Science Center will close for more than a month after Labor Day to dismantle its animatronic dinosaurs. Here’s why.

A new study by astronomers at the University of Western Ontario suggests and asteroid strike in 2032 could create hundreds of ...