"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...

The moon-man is painted with rock … specifically, basalt, the dark rock that flows from Hawaiian volcanoes, paving the ...

Initial sightings of Asteroid 2032 YR4 were tricky, but tracking has gotten better, helping us understand its path. New data, ...

In the International Space Station, the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew is marking their mission's halfway point not with music ...

NASA confirms that asteroid 2025 MW91, estimated to be 140 feet across, will make its closest approach on 5 July.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The designation is already used in other parts of the world to raise awareness for space science and planetary defense.

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according ...

The Earth is at risk of a city-killer asteroid strike in 2032 For a short time, the Moon blocked astronomers from tracking the asteroid clearly.

But our planet is not exactly out of the woods. Astronomers say that, if the asteroid hits the moon, the planet's gravity would siphon upwards of 10 percent of the debris back down to Earth.

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send debris hurtling towards our planet that could take out orbiting satellites ...