With the new observations, NASA has warned that there is around a 1% chance that the asteroid could impact the moon. That ...

A star racing through the Milky Way may have a planet in tow, setting a new speed record for exoplanet systems. Using microlensing, astronomers spotted the pair moving at over 1.2 million mph.

Though Artemis was conceived in President Donald Trump’s first term, he has openly mused about bypassing the Moon and heading ...

How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Two studies published in Nature Communications analyze the impact of the DART mission on Dimorphos, revealing new strategies to improve asteroid deflection effectiveness through the study of ejecta.

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

While Semeter is studying the ionosphere, the SHIELD NASA DRIVE Center, a team of astrophysicists from different universities ...

NASA has updated the odds of a devastating asteroid striking Earth, saying it is now greater than the odds of winning a game ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...