While Charon is currently listed as a satellite or moon by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), consideration is being given to it perhaps being classified as a dwarf planet in its own right, ...

Scientists at the PHENIX experiment at RHIC have uncovered compelling evidence that even collisions involving small nuclei ...

NASA has warned two massive asteroids 2025 BS4 and 2025 BH2 are set to come dangerously close to Earth today. Asteroid 2025 ...

Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

A big asteroid, the size of the Empire State Building, called 2024 WY70 is on a collision course with Earth this weekend.

The SPHEREx observatory will create 3D maps of the entire sky to study the universe’s expansion post-big bang and locate life ... En route to Jupiter’s moon Europa, the spacecraft will use Mars’ ...

The world's biggest iceberg—more than twice the size of London—could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...

It is not the first huge iceberg to threaten South Georgia and the nearby Sandwich Islands. In 2004, an iceberg called A38 broke off from its continental shelf, with the massive ice chunks ...