NASA's long-term space initiatives—from satellite networks to planetary terraforming—are sparking new fears about their ...

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), in collaboration with South African scientific institutions will host a workshop to introduce the Planetary Defense Conference and pioneering research ...

The Earth is constantly at risk of collisions with celestial objects, including asteroids and comets, which are present in vast numbers in space. To mitigate these risks, NASA is actively engaged in ...

We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget by up to 50 percent. Certainly, the space agency needs to modernize an ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

This trio of space missions arrives as space agencies have gotten serious about investigating planetary defense strategies—just in case one of the thousands of near-Earth objects comes within a ...

A court ruling that the environment minister owes children a duty of care to prevent climate harm has far-reaching implications One Sunday in August, 93 years ago, May Donoghue was enjoying an ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

Before the Trump administration’s cuts, members of the civilian federal work force were in every state and in thousands of ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...