A day later, however, NASA shared that mission operators had lost communication with the spacecraft in the wee hours of ...

Elon Musk has insisted it is essentially a matter of life and death that we find somewhere off Earth to colonize.

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Earth is no longer on a collision course with asteroid 2024 YR4, but it could potentially collide with the Moon.

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

Joe Heller was the editorial cartoonist for the Green Bay Press-Gazette in Green Bay, Wis., from 1985 until being laid off in ...

For a brief moment, it looked like asteroid 2024 YR4 had a real shot at hitting Earth in 2032. With its impact probability climbing to a record-breaking 3%, astronomers scrambled to refine its ...

AstroForge founder and CEO Matt Gialich provided an update on the status of the Odin spacecraft via social media on Saturday.

February, headlines around the world buzzed about the potential for an asteroid to hit the Earth in 2023—specifically, ...

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth. Last week, the asteroid had a 3.1% probability of ...

NASA is tracking a house-sized asteroid set to whiz past Earth tomorrow at a thundering 29,304 miles per hour. The space rock ...

Two Mars gravity assists are expected, and NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally set to come home from an extended stay on the International Space Station. Here are five space ...