That starts with bolstering the Space Force’s ability to detect and counter asteroid threats to American lunar infrastructure. The recent case of Asteroid YR4 illustrates the concern. In late December ...

The Asteroid That Briefly Worried Planetary Defense Experts Asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in late 2024 and quickly drew attention because early orbital calculations left open a possible Earth ...

From a marathon milestone on Mars to a sky filled with satellite trails above Chile’s deserts, this week’s collection ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft arrived at near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa on July 6, 2026, completing a 400-day, 1-billion-kilometer voyage to one of the strangest objects in Earth's neighborhood ...

Asteroid Vesta’s battered surface is far from static, it quietly preserves the memory of past collapses, impacts, and ...

After more than a year of controversy, scientists say they’ve used two geologic “clocks” to reconfirm that a site scarred by an ancient meteorite in Western Australia is more than three billion years ...

Full Moon occurs this evening at 7:57 P.M. EDT. The June Full Moon is also called the Strawberry Moon. According to NASA, this name comes from the Native American Algonquin tribes. Rising shortly ...

Scientists have finally confirmed the origin of the mysterious Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea. New evidence shows that an asteroid about 160 meters wide struck the seabed roughly 43 to 46 ...

Efrain Morales captured a breathtaking view of the Tiangong space station crossing the moon from Puerto Rico. | Credit: Efrain Morales Astrophotographer Efrain Morales captured spectacular footage of ...

A massive impact crater in Western Australia could be the oldest known asteroid strike site on Earth, according to new research. However, the proposed age remains the subject of ongoing scientific ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage will crash into the moon on August 5, raising questions about whether its impact flash or ejecta plume will be visible from Earth.

Zircon crystals and impact-altered minerals show that a massive asteroid slammed into what is now the Pilbara region of Western Australia about 3 billion years ago. “Although the Moon preserves clear ...