A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm struck Earth, it disrupted satellites, grounded flights, heated the atmosphere ...

The NEO Surveyor mission is the first space telescope that'll be dedicated to locating asteroids that could threaten Earth, ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

A Mother's Day meteor seen shooting across the night sky on Sunday surprised early risers in Western Australia who witnessed ...

Like meteors, space junk travels at vast speeds as it travels through the atmosphere and it begins burning up spectacularly.

The work that we’re doing is really important because warning time is everything,” says Danica Remy of the B612 Foundation in ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall ...

To understand how chaotic the early solar system was, we need only gaze at the moon. Its cratered surface bears the scars of ...

However, the rapid increase in the number of and dependence on satellites — both commercial and governmental — brings new risks. Cyberattacks on space infrastructure, increasing amounts of space ...

Texans from Austin to Houston were left starstruck on Monday as a brilliant fireball blazed across the sky, triggering a wave ...

USA TODAY Network’s Space Team also will provide live coverage of the Starship ... the most recent of which occurred March 6.