In 1962, after the explosion of a rocket that was designed to compete with Soviet advances, NASA scientists and engineers worked fast.

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Space debris from rocket bodies orbiting Earth could pose an increased threat of striking aircraft as it falls from space, ...

After a relatively short period of just two and a half years, the chief of the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, Yuri ...

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues immediately utilized the spacecraft's second instrument, the Follow-up ...

There is a 2 percent chance that seven years from now, “the city destroyer” will hit Earth with the force of an 8-megaton ...

CHINA is assembling a planetary defence team after a giant “city-killer” asteroid was discovered hurtling towards Earth. The ...

Last month, Donald Trump issued his first direct order to Elon Musk as president: go fetch the astronauts who flew to the ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

SpaceX crews are preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday from Florida’s Space Coast. The launch is set for 1:53 p.m.

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 do not have much time to deflect an asteroid a size of a football pitch that is hurtling towards Earth, an expert ...