SpaceX is gearing up to launch Fram2, the first crewed mission to orbit Earth's poles, on Monday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The historic mission will carry four civilians from ...

YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...

A four-person crew will spend three to five days aboard a SpaceX capsule orbiting above the poles of Earth — a flight path ...

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Sunlight scatters off the mingled dust and sets it aglow. It's brighter nearer the horizon because we're looking more closely ...

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

In a cosmic twist of fate, scientists have confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid previously thought to pose ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...