The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

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

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Plus: Observe two stunning spirals, see Venus reappear as a morning star, and enjoy the Last Quarter Moon in the sky this ...

Deimos is the smaller and less photographed of Mars’ moons. This egg-shaped object, only measuring about 7.7 miles in ...

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 ...

Elon Musk has announced plans to send a Starship rocket to Mars in 2026, carrying Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot on board.

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

Suni and Butch returned with two SpaceX Crew-9 crew members, NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr ...

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

Chinese scientists have developed a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which may be used for prospecting ...