jumped from 1.7% in late February to 3.8% based on data collected using the James Webb Space Telescope. Asteroid 2024 YR4 will likely spare Earth, but still has a chance of hitting the Moon.

An enigmatic Japanese billionaire picked 10 artists to fly to the moon, only to pull the plug. Now they’re figuring out ...

As for the Moon, that’s apparently another matter. When it was first spotted, asteroid 2024 YR4 was 515,116 miles (829,000 kilometers) away from Earth. Since then, the space rock has moved away ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...

By Qasim Nauman and Isabella Kwai The rocket, developed by Isar Aerospace, lifted off from Norway’s Andøya Space Center ... By Isabella Kwai The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun ...

A "blood moon" happens when Earth's moon is in a total lunar eclipse ... used this to his advantage in 1504. According to a Space.com Skywatching columnist Joe Rao, Columbus and his crew were ...

Late on Thursday night and into the early hours of Friday, the full “Worm Moon” turned a beautiful reddish color as it drifted through Earth’s massive umbral shadow in space. It was also ...

Kiichiro Sato/Associated Press Supported by By Aimee Ortiz From Thursday night into Friday morning, the Earth’s shadow gradually overtook the moon’s ... world with our space and astronomy ...

Tense, public squabbles between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and NASA have stirred the space industry, but behind the scenes, space science has continued business as (almost) normal.