The comet 3I/ATLAS is well on its way back into deep space, but the famous cosmic visitor continues to fascinate astronomers.

SpaceX has long focused on building the technology needed to send humans to Mars, but Elon Musk has hinted at an even larger ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

The researchers who scan the skies for radio signals from extraterrestrials are now rethinking their approach.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

While Earth experienced dazzling auroras seen as far south as Mexico, Mars faced a very different and far more intense impact.

Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented ...

The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

The company is seeking F.C.C. approval to test an idea to reflect sunlight to Earth at night, possibly powering solar panels. Critics say it could be bad for people and wildlife.

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

The targeted collision of a space probe with an asteroid moon can change the orbit of the main asteroid around the sun. The Dart experiment has shown this.

NASA’s historic asteroid experiment has revealed an unexpected outcome. Scientists now report that the Double Asteroid ...