There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Satellite images taken at the beginning of March show the iceberg parked on a shallow underwater shelf off the coast of South ...

President Donald Trump mistakenly referred to celebrated astronaut Sunita Williams as the 'woman with wild hair' while ...

Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan spent 178 days in space and has accumulated more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of Earth. Basically, he's spent a lot of time up in space, and has since spoken ...

What would happen if Earth stopped spinning? There is no chance that you'll be flung off to space right now, because the Earth's gravity is so strong compared to its spinning motion. (This latter ...

NASA and the European Space Agency also are interested in getting a better look at Apophis before and during its close approach to Earth in 2029. For context, 2024 YR4 now rates at a 0 on the ...

But anyone faintly worried about a potential Armageddon scenario can now rest easy - the European Space Agency has slashed the chance of impact on Earth to 0.001%, and NASA to 0.0017%. The US ...

Its exact size is expected to be confirmed in March 2025 when the James Webb Space Telescope studies it. By April 2025, it will move out of range of Earth-based telescopes but is expected to become ...

Richard Binzel, professor of planetary science at MIT and creator of the Torino Scale, confirmed the downgrade, stating: "Asteroid 2024 YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale ... as an ...