One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

A large asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, according to NASA and the ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

For about six weeks now, NASA has been tracking a small asteroid called “2024 YR4.” It has a very low chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.