Hera and its two cubesats arrived at their launch site in Florida in early September following a transatlantic flight from Germany, with a stop in Ireland. The mission's launch window opens on Oct. 7 ...

The public has been informed by NASA that the stadium-sized asteroid 2024 ON will pass near Earth today. The 290-meter-wide ...

Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede, is a fascinating celestial body. Measuring 2,634 km (1,636 mi) in diameter, it is also the largest ...

A camper scrolling through Google Maps has stumbled upon what could be a crater caused by a giant asteroid impact in Canada. Joël Lapointe discovered the likely crater with a spherical pit of about ...

For the asteroid named for an Egyptian god of chaos ... to be to knock Apophis off course and put it on a trajectory to crash into Earth beyond 2029. The bad news? It would only take a really ...

A tiny asteroid became a huge fireball as it hit the atmosphere over the Philippines this week. Researcher Jacqueline Fazekas ...

An undetected asteroid, named 2024 RW1, entered Earth's atmosphere on September 4, 2024, burning up as a fireball over the ...

The ring could have cast a shadow on Earth, blocking sunlight and contributing to a significant global cooling event.