The UN has activated planetary defense protocols for the first time to better determine the orbit, size, and threat posed by 2024 YR4, a rock discovered on December 27 that has a 1.6% chance of ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

The partial failure of its NVS-02 navigation satellite on Sunday was the latest in a series of setbacks suffered by the ...

In 2022, Skyroot made history by launching Vikram-S, the first rocket ever to be launched by a private company in India. More ...

The issue was highlighted after the SpaceX Starship mission last month, which caused debris to fall over the Atlantic Ocean ...

Vikram-1 will be launched on its maiden mission later this year with payloads to space. The rocket has been designed to deploy a 480 kg payload to a 500 km low inclination orbit.

NASA ‘s Marshall Space Flight Center hosted four astronauts on Jan. 29 at the Marshall Activities Building 4316.

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

Japan's SKY Perfect JSAT will invest about $230 million to build a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites using U.S.

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket into orbit for the Maxar-3 mission from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

If you saw a bright light making its way across Virginia’s skyline earlier today, you’re not alone. But what, exactly, did ...