In 2024, the global space economy hit $613 billion—up nearly 8% year-over-year. The commercial sector was responsible for ...

A newly refined set of orbital calculations suggests that asteroid 2024 YR4 — once briefly considered a threat to Earth — ...

What happens if an asteroid cracked the Moon apart? Witness the catastrophic effects on tides, orbits, and life on Earth.

This unexpected lunar rendezvous is a consequence of the natural three-body problem dynamics, the gravitational interplay between Earth, the Moon, and the spacecraft.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on astronomical ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

I believe extraterrestrial intelligence (in AI form) could be concealed under the lunar surface," Alex Ellery told Newsweek.

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of the star-forming region IC 348. In this image released on July 23, 2025, ...