Lowell Observatory and Meteor Crater, in partnership with B612 Foundation, will host a public event featuring distinguished speakers, telescope viewing, and family fun activities FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., ...

Today, the Apollo NEO asteroid, 2024 XS3, will pass Earth at a distance of approximately 3.3 million kilometers (2.1 million ...

The space around us is hardly empty – there’s millions of asteroids orbiting the Sun along with the Earth and other planets in our solar system. But one day every year we come together to acknowledge ...

Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Mary Robinette Kowal, who created alternate-history astronauts in her Lady Astronaut series of books, will lead an all-star cast of speakers in ...

The asteroid 2024 YR4, once considered potentially hazardous, isn't likely to hit us anytime soon. Now, a team of researchers says that instead of stressing about the near miss, we can be excited by ...

LOS ANGELES — An amateur astronomer hunting for asteroids may have discovered a piece of the rocket that launched the Apollo 12 astronauts to the moon in 1969, a NASA scientist said Thursday. The ...

Fifty years ago, the last human set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission brought back a wealth of lunar samples, but some were left untouched until now. The UK’s National History Museum researchers ...

"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal about the moon's history." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Legendary Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, astronomer Scott Manley and acclaimed author Mary Robinette Kowal, known for her Lady Astronaut series, ...