The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made.

Earth will reach its closest point to the ... "In about 1604, Johannes Kepler fitted an ellipse model of Mars' orbit to observations of Mars," Bloomer told Space.com. "He came up with the first ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) deleted the new asteroid from its records just hours after announcing the discovery after ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

It's their considerable sideways momentum, perfectly stabilised against the Earth's gravitational pull downwards, that keeps satellites in orbit. A new class of satellites is aiming to push the ...

The object is known as Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2024 PT5 (or PT5, for short) and its orbit is very similar to Earth's. Oddly enough, that region often gets littered with rocket bodies ...

The daughter of a Cape Cod man who had a lifetime fascination with space travel has arranged a special memorial tribute.

Feb. 10 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched a new round of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Monday evening from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Science News // 1 day ago ESA's ...