NASA's head of planetary defence, Dr Kelly Fast, has issued an unsettling update on thousands of ‘city-killer’ asteroids that could hit Earth.

In a way, that’s exactly what she studies. A heliophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, MacDonald, working remotely in Walla Walla, has spent her career chasing the mysteries behind the ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

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Scientists discussed the threat of asteroids at a recent conference in Phoenix. Here's what they said.

Every now and then, I fall down a late-night rabbit hole reading space facts, and the 30 on this list are the ones that truly messed with my brain. Fair warning: you might need a minute to recover ...

Aurorasaurus has grown into a vibrant community of observers who help scientists track everything from sudden storms to rare colors. Some of the project’s most remarkable discoveries began with ...

Five years of imagery from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have been stitched together to create an ...

NASA has released a nebula-like view of the SpaceX/NASA Crew-12 mission launching to the International Space Station atop a ...

Satellites have captured incredible views of the Feb. 17 annular solar eclipse as the moon's shadow swept across a remote ...

Half of Earth’s oceans are more than 3.2km deep. Beneath them lie cavernous plains untouched by sunlight, vast gaping trenches made by Earth’s tectonic plates shifting, and ranges of underwater ...