NASA is preparing to roll its towering Artemis 2 moon rocket back to its hangar after more than a month atop ts Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center due to a helium system issue. The rollback ...

NASA on Sunday (Feb. 22) announced that the space agency will roll its massive Artemis 2 moon rocket, the second-ever Space ...

On November 1, 2023, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a ...

NASA's head of planetary defence has revealed what keeps her up at night - tens of thousands of 'city killer' asteroids that remain undetected.

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants. Reading time 3 minutes Jupiter’s moon Io is covered in hundreds of ...

On February 9–10, 2026, the last quarter moon rises in Libra alongside stars Spica and Arcturus, offering telescope observations of lunar craters and Montes Appenninus.

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, witnessed numerous active volcanoes erupting ...

If 2024 YR4 strikes the Moon in 2032, we could not only witness the event, but also meteor storms like nothing we've ever seen before.

The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You can use this sparkling star to point your way to the open cluster M47 in ...

This time last year, the world was gripped by reports that an incoming, nearly 200-feet-wide asteroid had a tiny, tiny chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. The sigh of relief that we weren’t on course ...

Depiction of the expected trajectory. Around December 2032, the Moon might host a very violent guest. A 60-meter-wide asteroid known as 2024 YR4 currently has a 4.3% chance of slamming into the lunar ...

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