The odds of Kosmos 482 slamming into a populated area are ‘infinitesimally small’, said University of Colorado Boulder ...

The final day of the 53-year, errant flight of the Soviet Union’s failed Venus space probe is now upon us. It's expected to ...

A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.

In the early solar system, a massive impact shaped both Earth and the moon. A protoplanet smashed into our young planet, ...

The presentations were made by Noah Petro and Barbara Cohen, NASA’s Artemis III and IV mission science leads from the Goddard ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

NASA is exploring alternative ways to deliver its VIPER rover to the moon after canceling partnership proposals to land a ...

Elon Musk is taking the long view. The billionaire SpaceX founder has long said that humanity needs to expand its footprint ...

New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.