The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

It's up in the air how much longer the beloved telescope will be with us.

The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...

Learn about new evidence that suggests life on Earth may have started with the help of molecules that were delivered by ...

Usually, what springs to mind when you think of the world’s most expensive substances are gold, silver, and platinum. However ...

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Around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid smashed into Earth, ending the reign of the dinosaurs. For nearly three decades, scientists have debated whether dinosaur species were actually ...

“Interstellar, he was just on another level. Still can’t fathom how folks can legit call this movie COLD when it has maybe the MOST emotion in a Nolan movie EVER,” said one admirer. Another ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck, scientists said Tuesday. A team of astronomers used the Gemini South ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

In the field of space exploration and asteroid monitoring, some discoveries raise more eyebrows than others– and asteroid 2024 YR4 is one of them. When it was first detected, astronomers feared ...

Scientists believe a 'house-sized' asteroid originally thought to have a chance of hitting Earth now has double the chance of smashing into the Moon. Researchers have managed to work out the shape ...