NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman showcased past successes and future ambitions of the nation’s space program during a stop at the University of Arizona.

NASA says asteroid 2024 YR4 poses no risk of hitting the Moon in 2032. In a March 5 update, the agency said new James Webb ...

The new open-source AsteroiDB platform will compile light curves of asteroids from various telescopes. At launch, it will contain over 15 million measurements.

Explore asteroids that almost hit Earth, what close flybys teach us, and how planetary defense helps protect our planet.

The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive battle scar to prove it. The space rock, estimated to be the size of building reaching between three ...

Researchers say there’s not enough water on the moon to sustain a city of one million people for longer than a couple years.

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that’s bigger than the Roman Colosseum and is the result of a powerful impact ...

The researchers identified the five new craters using two cameras aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has snapped a slew of spectacular shots from its orbital perch, inc ...

Weird Al” Yankovic now has an asteroid named after him, thanks to the efforts of a planetary scientist with deep connections ...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has detected the largest newly formed crater ever found in the solar system, ...

The crater is roughly two football fields wide and about 140 feet deep. They think it formed when a comet or asteroid, crashed into the moon in 2024.

Scientists have discovered a “once-in-a-century" crater on the Moon that formed in 2024 when an asteroid or comet fragment struck the lunar surface.