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

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

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 ...

Science. Earthquake in the field of quantum physics after the shape of electrons is revealed Science. New type of duck-billed dinosaur found in China opens door to future discoveries There is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This result was expected by scientists, who said that the odds of impact typically go up before they drop to zero. While the asteroid won’t hit the Earth, it does have a small chance of crashing ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

At that time, asteroid 2024 YR4 was deemed a significant global threat and became a major topic of discussion among space agencies. It had reached Level 3 on the risk scale—the highest classification ...