A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and back. "Laser communications use infrared light to transmit 10 to 100 times ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

Currently, no other known large asteroids have an impact probability above 1%,” said NASA in a release. While there’s still a nearly 99 percent chance that 2024 YR4 won’t impact Earth ...

At the time of publication, there is a 2.3 percent chance of an asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — hitting the planet in 2032, according to NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies. Less than a ...

SpaceTV-1, a set of Ultra High Definition 4k cameras from space streaming company Sen, was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) last year, and is now broadcasting live views of Earth and ...

NASA reports that the construction and operation of China's Three Gorges Dam have slightly slowed Earth's rotation by 0.06 microseconds. This effect is due to the redistribution of water mass ...

What is the 'alien' that has been found near the South Pole? NASA is keeping a close watch on three asteroids making near-Earth approaches today. One of them, named 2025 CF, will pass within just ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into ... The four satellites of NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission recently measured a burst of chorus waves coming from a spot about 102,526 ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

2023 was the hottest year on record, NASA and NOAA say — Fall 2024 was Earth's warmest autumn ever — NASA confirms summer 2023 was Earth's hottest on record These short-term influences aside ...

Fans of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies can soon own all six movies in a single box set thanks to the upcoming The Middle-earth 6-Film 4K Blu-ray Collection ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...