The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

After more than a decade mapping out our home galaxy, the Gaia space telescope was powered down and sent into "retirement ...

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

This is what Mr Musk said he wanted to do last year. Then it seemed barely plausible. Today it looks next to impossible. Mr ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

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

Windstorms can seem like they come out of nowhere, hitting with a sudden blast. They might be hundreds of miles long, ...