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

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

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

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

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 ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

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

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

Carlos Slim is not the only one who has doubted that Elon Musk can achieve his plan to take humans to Mars before 2029 ...