The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died. William Ray Lucas was 102.

It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

A stunning Valentine's view of a nebula contains hidden depths of starbirth and the violent deaths of massive stars.

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 has a 97.9% chance to safely pass the Earth in 2032, as per NASA scientists. If it strikes, the ...

Scientists recently doubled the chances that Asteroid 2024 YR4 will hit Earth in 2032. While earlier estimates said the ...

A bouquet of thousands of stars in bloom has arrived. This composite image contains the deepest X-ray image ever made of the ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

NASA and the European Space Agency have issued updates on what is considered to be the most dangerous asteroid astronomers ...

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...