
A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it
If an incoming asteroid hits the moon, it will be visible from Earth, according to a new study

A 200-foot asteroid has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032—and we could see it
If an incoming asteroid hits the moon, it will be visible from Earth, according to a new study

NASA targets March Artemis II moon mission launch dates
NASA’s updated potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission are now between March 6 and 11


‘Baby cluster’ of galaxies may challenge cosmic models
Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen

NASA’s Artemis II moon mission engulfed by debate over its controversial heat shield
Experts have sounded the alarm over NASA’s decision to use a heat shield design for Artemis II that may be riskier than the space agency claims

Elon Musk fuses SpaceX with xAI
Acquiring xAI could boost SpaceX’s plans to launch a one-million-strong satellite constellation to act as an orbital data center network

NASA delays Artemis II moon mission after critical test raises issues
NASA will review data gathered during a simulated launch of the Artemis II rocket before revealing a new date for its upcoming moon mission

NASA’s Artemis II launch rehearsal hits a snag
NASA engineers temporarily stopped pumping liquid hydrogen fuel into the Artemis II rocket because of an apparent leak

The sun just unleashed its most powerful solar flare in years
The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years

Jupiter isn’t as huge as we thought it was
“Textbooks will need to be updated”: the solar system’s largest planet appears to be smaller and flatter than we knew

Astronomers declare rare dark-sky victory over scrapped energy project in Chile
After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert

SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites to power orbital AI data center
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is set to massively expand its orbital footprint in a bid to power next-generation artificial intelligence

Why does time flow at all? Physicists struggle to find an answer
The puzzle of time remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of physics