The proposed national US budget for 2026 contains a few nasty surprises for NASA, and some serious disappointments—among them ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

An Atlas V rocket sends Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites into space. (United Launch Alliance via YouTube) A second batch of satellites has been sent into low Earth orbit for Amazon’s Project ...

Replacing Fire with Force SpinLaunch skips the traditional use of rocket fuel. Instead, it relies on a rotating arm, spinning inside a vacuum chamber, to fling satellites into low Earth orbit.

A beloved dog named Franz will take his final leap this weekend — into Earth’s orbit. The yellow labrador’s ashes will be on board the inaugural Perseverance Flight from Texas-based Celestis ...

The world breathed a sigh of relief when NASA confirmed the asteroid was no longer likely to hit Earth. But scientists now warn that the threat posed by this space rock is far from over.

Space may feel weightless, but its effect on oral health can be heavy. A new animal study shows that near-weightlessness speeds up gum disease – the kind that eats away at bone and can eventually ...

The biggest difference, Zhukov adds, "is that we can create our eclipse once every 19.6-hour orbit, while total solar eclipses only occur naturally around once, very rarely twice a year.

One proposed way of examining if such a force could exist is by closely monitoring asteroid trajectories, and few near-Earth ...