Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in space history don't miss our On This Day in Space ... climbed high into Earth's atmosphere ...

As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through ... sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon (so, technically, this would be the real half moon)," NASA wrote in its moon guide.

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of hitting Earth in about eight years. Such an impact has the potential for city-level devastation ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...

Launched in 2016, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx for short, traveled to the asteroid – about 200 million miles away from ...

When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO ... It could collect measurements day and night and see through clouds. The team's work led ...

More information: Yulong Zhang et al, Earth's record-high greenness and its attributions in 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114494 Provided by Duke University ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting planet Earth in seven years. The animation, provided by the NASA-funded ...

“These analyses will change from day to day as more observations are gathered,” added JPL. How an ancient asteroid strike carved out 2 grand canyons on the moon As of NASA’s latest report, there’s a 0 ...

29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ... the Bennu asteroid in 2020 and delivered to Earth ...