In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn morning in the Southern Hemisphere (false dawn). In early autumn, the timing ...

In a recent interview, NASA’s Acting Planetary Defense Officer Dr Kelly Fast told The Times that space agencies have no current way to stop an asteroid should it pose an imminent threat to Earth. Her ...

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

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"We would not have any way to go and actively deflect one right now," warns the scientist who led NASA's DART mission.

The best “planet parade” of the year puts Venus, Jupiter, and more on display right after sunset—and you can see most of them with the naked eye.

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NASA has scheduled a second Artemis II test run for Thursday night that could set up a launch of the crewed moon mission in early March.

Kelly Fast, a planetary defense officer at NASA, says there could be 15,000 undetected asteroids that have the potential to take out a city.