A four-person crew is about to take off from SpaceX's NASA Kennedy Center in a Dragon capsule, in a world first to orbit Earth's two poles.

An asteroid discovered over 200 years ago which is roughly the size of Germany would have catastrophic consequences for life ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A European Vega-C rocket will launch tomorrow carrying the Sentinel-1C mission into orbit in the rocket's first return to flight since it failed in 2022. The European Space Agency (ESA) is launching ...

NASA is about to begin a massive hunt for hidden asteroids, and may uncover city-destroying space rocks we’ve missed.

We've unearthed the article which appeared in the Grimsby Telegraph in March 1935 after a 'ball of fire' hit the village ...

If you've seen strange lights in the sky recently, don't panic — it was either a meteor the latest batch of Starlink satellites. Probably.

On April evenings, look to the west to spot the bright winter constellations of Orion, Gemini, Taurus, Auriga, Canis Major and Canis Minor. They’ll be gone soon, so check them out while you can.

Thursday, March 20 marked the beginning of spring with the vernal equinox, but what does this really mean? To understand, let ...

A mysterious 'fireball' was spotted flying over San Francisco, Tahoe and Vegas, and astronomers say it was likely from SpaceX ...

A case in point: a European Space Agency satellite, known as ERS-2, launched in 1995 and inactive since 2011, tumbled through ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...