NASA warns asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the Moon in 2032, possibly creating a crater and satellite-threatening debris cloud.

Back in 1949, before he emerged as the godfather of the American space program, he spilled his fantasies onto the page, in a ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Donald Trump plans to scrap Nasa's Mars Sample Return mission – stranding test tubes on the Red Planet and ceding potentially ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured images of massive early galaxies, which were called “cosmic-breaking” red dots, that looked too large to exist so quickly after the Big Bang. According ...

Showing that you shouldn't draw conclusions based on too few facts, new NASA research suggests that a decades-old view of Uranus as an unusually cold planet isn't true, but that it does actually ...

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

Astronomer Robert Kirshner investigates some of the universe’s biggest questions: What happens when a star explodes? Is the ...

The study, which was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society earlier this year, claims that our universe may exist inside a black hole.