“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view,” the ...

The ESA competition aims to foster independent access to space by supporting emerging small- and medium-lift rocket ...

This year, the alert system for defending the planet against incoming space rocks was activated for the first time. It won’t be the last ...

Should YR4 strike the Moon, the collision could eject up to 100 million kilograms of lunar debris into space. A portion of this material might enter Earth’s orbit, posing risks to satellites and other ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you know where an object will be, years hence.

"The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability was still slowly rising as the asteroid faded out of view. "However, this ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

Two spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency launched on top of an Indian rocket Thursday, kicking off a mission to test novel formation flying technologies and observe a rarely seen ...

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

A Soyuz 2.1b will launch a pair of Ionosfera-M satellites from Site 1S at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia on Friday, July ...

What is it? The Vega-C rocket — a more powerful variant developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and operated by the French company Arianespace — took off its inaugural launch on July 13 ...

SpaceX’s fifth and final Crew Dragon spacecraft finally made it off the ground on a private astronaut mission for Axiom Space.