A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...

NASA has identified two asteroids, 2024 YH and 2024 YD3, set to approach Earth on December 26. Though these "near misses" will pass millions of miles away, they offer scientists an opportunity to ...

Christmas is here, and so are brand new images of some of the most beautiful holiday-inspired celestial views in the visible ...

NASA astronauts sent a “Merry Christmas” message to Earth from the International Space Station. Suni Williams and Butch ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...

If you’re hoping to spot Santa flying through the skies on Christmas Eve, keep an eye out for another celestial visitor—a ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

NASA will deploy cutting-edge technology to better understand the inner workings of 2024 XN1 during its near-Earth passage.

While this is considered a “close approach” by interstellar standards — NASA defines near-Earth objects (NEOs) as those that ...

"In 1969, we landed humans on the moon; on Christmas Eve in 2024, we are going to embrace a star," Nour Raouafi, project ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid, comparable in size to a 10-story building, will make a close approach to Earth on ...

NASA has warned that the massive asteroid 2024 NX1 will skim past Earth tonight - reaching its closest point at 02:56 am GMT ...