A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

The most powerful solar storm to impact Earth in decades caused the temporary formation of radiation belts around Earth, NASA recently announced. A NASA CubeSat satellite made the discovery, which ...

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

No, or at least not because of the 2024 YR asteroid. First off, there is currently only about a one-in-43 chance that this ...

In May 2024, an epic solar storm rattled Earth so powerfully that its effects were felt even at the bottom of the ocean.

Designed to operate in low Earth orbit at an altitude of approximately 613 kilometers, the satellite will provide detailed imagery with a resolution of less than one square meter. This capability is ...

Space company SpinLaunch is trying to re-invent the system for launching craft off of our world and into space. The goal is to use their centrifuge-like launch mechanism to catapult objects like ...

The risk of impact is likely to drop to zero as observations of Asteroid 2024 YR4 continue.

Elon Musk is responsible for unleashing a mystery " asteroid" that has been spotted orbiting the Earth and closer than ... was purposefully catapulted into orbit. The "asteroid" they found ...

The tiny fluctuations we perceive as chorus waves are produced by plasma instabilities, unstable distributions of charged particles flowing along Earth’s magnetic field lines. Because they can ...

The rocket's payload of 21 satellites was deployed to low-Earth orbit, where they will join the growing constellation of thousands of Starlink satellites that provide high-speed, low-latency ...

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...