NASA's upcoming EDGE satellite mission, led by UC San Diego, uses lasers to deliver unprecedented 3D mapping of Earth.

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Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

Rubin Observatory begins sending hundreds of thousands of nightly alerts as it prepares for its 10-year sky survey, tracking supernovae, asteroids, galaxies and other changing objects in near real ...

The newly discovered object dubbed the Great Comet of 2026 may become visible to the naked eye during its close solar pass in April.

Six planets are set to align on Saturday, creating a planetary parade that will be visible to sky-gazers across the globe.

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 ...

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

China’s Shenlong space plane launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for its fourth orbital mission to low Earth orbit, continuing tests for future reusable spacecraft technologies.

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

On a frigid orbit beyond Neptune, some of the solar system’s smallest worlds project a strange silhouette. Two rounded lobes, ...

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