Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

In August 2024, the ATLAS telescope in South Africa discovered asteroid 2024 PT5, a ten-meter-wide space rock roughly the ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch ... provide insights into how space weather and other cosmic forces ...

After India successfully landed Chandrayaan-3, its third lunar mission near the South Pole of the Moon in August 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) this week successfully completed ...

Why it's so special: This picture was taken by the European Space Agency's Huygens probe during ... above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini ...

Housseal, 29, is a forecaster for the 2nd Weather Squadron’s Space Weather Flight, an Offutt Air Force Base military unit that monitors the sun around the clock for the U.S. armed forces.

Just as weather on Earth determines whether a rocket can be launched or not — calm conditions and lightning-free skies are a must — space weather can make or break missions in space. Favourable solar ...

The nonprofit group said the Moon is home to over 90 historic sites, which could be threatened due in part to the era of space exploration. "For the first time, the Moon is included on the Watch to ...

More of a standing on the space porch and gawking at Earth, but it still counts. Meanwhile, on the Moon, some firsts were being clocked up in 2024. In January, the US commercial Peregrine mission ...

Moon has been added to the list by World Monuments Fund. Moon has been placed on a list of threatened heritage sites as the space race risks jeopardising Earth's only natural satellite.