Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

How about proposing to any and all nations harboring nuclear fission based weapons of mass destruction that they trade them in for an accelerated program to build nuclear fusion alternatives done on ...

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Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket. This marks the rocket's 50th and final ...

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

Keeping Earth safe from asteroids isn’t just spotting them – it’s also helping people understand what a high-impact ...

U.S. Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing June 30 as National ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the Moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming towards Earth that would ...

Japan on Sunday launched a satellite to monitor greenhouse gas emissions using its mainstay H-2A rocket, which made its final ...

I knew that the engineering team leaned toward an overabundance of caution: They didn’t want the asteroid’s rugged surface to jeopardize ... the OSIRIS-REx principal investigator, speaks at a press ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.