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.

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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 ...

Researchers suggest Alpha Centauri may be the origin of millions of interstellar objects now in our solar system, some possibly even reaching Earth, though harmlessly, highlighting the interconnected ...

An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagged a small possibility of Earth impact, but refined ...

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You can follow her on X or Instagram at @melissafleura. NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space ...

It's exhausting. This week, all that alien panic is swirling around a story citing a Harvard astronomer claiming that the first interstellar asteroid or comet ever discovered named 'Oumuamua might ...

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 ...

NASA's latest asteroid warning is about a space rock named 2023 KU that is hurtling towards Earth at a speed of 64,000 kilometres per hour. The 370-foot asteroid belongs to the Apollo group of ...