The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not ...

AstroForge says there's no real hope of reestablishing contact with its Odin probe, the first private spacecraft ever to fly ...

"Even worse, because this is so powerful, we are trying to reach a spacecraft which at this point is 300,000 km [186,411 ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn. Update for 4:30 am ET: Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander ...

As per earlier calculations which were placed on asteroid 2024 YR4 at Level 3 on the Torino Scale- it was meant that it will require close monitoring. At the time, scientists estimated a 1 in 32 ...

Around 66 million years ago an asteroid ... The land knows more about anything than we do, perhaps a mass extinction is what would be best. This, however, is a far look into the future. For now, we ...

PARIS — The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 percent, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday (Wednesday ...

This result was expected by scientists, who said that the odds of impact typically go up before they drop to zero. While the asteroid has been dismissed as a threat, NASA said they will continue ...

Ongoing vigilance in planetary defense The confirmation follows an expected pattern in asteroid tracking, where impact probabilities often rise before dropping to zero as more precise measurements ...

After a few days of rising chances, NASA gave the all-clear of a meteor that could impact Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 has gotten media attention for its gradually growing chances of hitting the ...