An asteroid was officially named Zhongnanshan in honor of the prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert during a naming ...

Each shot zooms in on both individual craters and bruise-colored spots, allowing for an up-close study of the orb ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket snapped a pretty special in-space selfie on Monday (Oct. 7). The shot, captured during the launch of ...

The Master of Magnetism is the original X-Men adversary, and every legendary villain needs an equally monumental lair; ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Everyone knows of the asteroid that spelled the end of all non-avian dinosaurs—the Chicxulub impactor—but a new study shows that a ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...

The asteroid that crashed into Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs was not alone, scientists have astonishingly claimed. According to a team at Heriot-Watt University ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are on their way to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, which intentionally hit an asteroid in 2022.

The FAA notified SpaceX on Oct. 11 that the Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to regular flight operations.' ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on Earth. The impact left a ...

A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...