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

Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling toward the planet. The NEO Surveyor, set to launch in 2027, is the first spacecraft specifically ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks passing the ...

Rocket Lab (RKLB) USA announced its third Pioneer spacecraft for Varda Space Industries is successfully operating on orbit. The W-3 mission launched March 14, from Vandenberg Space Force Base at ...

The Saturday night arrival of the Crew-10 astronauts is what set the stage for Wilmore and Williams to finally return after more than nine months and 280 days in orbit. The Crew-10 mission ...

A Hycean exoplanet could have detectable methyl halide gases in its atmosphere that could indicate the presence of life. Credit: Amanda Smith illustration These gases — composed of carbon ...

For example, SpaceX was established in 2002. Its Falcon 1 rocket reached orbit just six years later, on its fourth attempt in 2008. So no one in that room would have put in “a decade’s worth ...

The Saturday night arrival of the Crew-10 astronauts is what paved the way for Wilmore and Williams to finally head home after more than 280 days in orbit. After a two-day delay, the Crew-10 ...

The astronauts, who are both on their third trip to orbit, were selected to pilot the Boeing Starliner for its first crewed spaceflight in June. But Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was plagued by a ...