The probability of the asteroid hitting Earth has fluctuated over the past few weeks Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously ...

The head of NASA’s astrophysics division offered an upbeat assessment of upcoming missions, a stark contrast to the agency’s ...

NASA and Axiom Space have signed an order for the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than August 2024 from the agency’s Kennedy Space ...

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4. The ...

A NASA photographer who captured a photo of the awe-inducing 2024 eclipse from a Midwest location is having his work hailed as among the best images of 2024, the space agency said. The photo by Joel ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

This map of Earth in 2024 shows how much warmer or cooler each region of the planet was compared with the average from 1951 to 1980. Higher-than-normal temperatures are shown in red and orange, and ...

In early September 2024, China announced that it planned to launch a mission to collect and return samples from the surface of Mars in 2028, positioning China to become the first nation returning ...

The Space Launch System rocket that will dispatch four astronauts on the first Moon mission in more than 50 years passed a major milestone Wednesday. NASA said ground teams inside the Vehicle Assembly ...

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Both organisations have stopped using EVs purchased from the now-defunct start-up Canoo. This is despite Canoo's former CEO ...

On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America and all of Michigan will at least get to see a partial eclipse. This is the last solar eclipse visible in the Contiguous United ...