In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

China is practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its expanding capabilities in space, according to the United States ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

Another plane-sized space rock, known as the "2025 DY5" and measuring about 92 feet across, will zip past our planet this ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

Dolphins surrounded the SpaceX capsule after it landed in the ocean on the NASA astronauts' successful journey home after ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other ...

As a result, far fewer satellites will be able to safely operate in near-Earth space in the coming decades, with local space debris emergencies likely to become a norm, a new study suggests.

It was a homecoming that made everyone – and everything – flip for joy.

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...