Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025. Here's what happened.

"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

Astronomers first spotted comet 3I/Atlas in data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Space is a busy place, filled with celestial objects bumping around. They’re always out there but from time to time get our attention more than others, and we seem to be in such a time, with the ...

On nights when an asteroid is scheduled to pass Earth, a certain type of silence is present. It's not a storm warning's ...

A factual look at projections of a potential 2032 asteroid impact on the Moon, including how scientists track near-Earth objects and assess impact probabilities.

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

NASA estimates that roughly 25,000 near-Earth asteroids measuring at least 140 meters across orbit in our planetary neighborhood, but surveys have so far cataloged only about 40% of them. That gap ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

"We would not have any way to go and actively deflect one right now," warns the scientist who led NASA's DART mission.