"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space ...

PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This ...

The success of SpaceX and other private-sector space firms is throwing up hard questions about America's "great national ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.

The space industry started off 2025 with a bang. January brought the dual launch of lunar landers from the Texas-based ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...

(The institute operates major telescopes for NASA, like Webb and the Hubble Space Telescope.) The budget shortfall would begin in October 2025, the start of the federal fiscal year. The telescope ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an ...

NASA's achievements, from the iconic Apollo missions to the James Webb Telescope, have redefined space exploration and ...