The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a city, or ...

From a fixed distance of roughly 1 million miles above Earth—five times the distance from here to the moon—it will follow our planet around the sun, taking in an exponentially broader view of ...

Based on the latest observations by the Webb Telescope, Nasa have upgraded the chances of '2024 YR4' colliding with Earth's moon in 2032 to ... of it hitting Earth (3.1%), the highest-ever impact ...

SIUE marked Earth Day with a tree planting, but not just any tree. It's a Moon Tree, grown from a seed that orbited the Moon during NASA's 2022 Artemis mission.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

The crescent moon will be the centerpiece of April's final astronomical event as it bunches up with Venus, Saturn and Mercury ...

Tiandu-2 and Queqiao-2 satellites successfully tested communications from moon orbit to Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage ...

Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars -size protoplanet slammed into the young ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

Historical context of GNSS in space. The latest historic chapter in GNSS for space users was launched, as one would expect, ...