The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching.

A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago.

On Aug. 5, a SpaceX rocket will hit the Moon near Einstein Crater, giving scientists valuable data on crater formation and ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes captured imagery of the aftermath from ...

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Nearly a month has passed since the New Glenn rocket exploded on its launch pad in Florida, creating a massive fireball. It was likely the largest ever rocket explosion at the historic Florida ...

Doctor Russell, Commander Koenig, and Professor Bergman look at something above them in Space: 1999 (1975) - Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images When it premiered in 1975, "Space: 1999" introduced ...

View post: 40 Years Ago: One of the 'Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time' Began a Historic Run at No. 1 "Office Space" flopped in 1999, grossing only $10.8 million in theaters. The movie became a ...

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From navigation to solar weather forecasting, many different areas of research require space-based sensors to measure Earth's magnetic field as accurately as possible at any given moment. So far, ...

Strong solar activity can nudge space debris orbiting Earth out of the sky. By tracking the positions of 17 pieces of space debris in low Earth orbit for more than three decades, astrophysicist Ayisha ...

Earlier this month, NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts to orbit the moon and used new laser communications systems to beam dramatic images back to Earth. One of the receivers, though, wasn ...