Earlier this month, Organic Geochemistry Laboratory manager Lennart van Maldegem posed a question to a group of eighth graders from behind a table jumbled with jars of candy, food coloring and ...

The beleaguered private moon lander Peregrine, which suffered a fuel leak shortly after its launch last week, is now on a collision course with Earth, its builder said Saturday (Jan. 13). If you're ...

Before its final crash landing on the Moon, Japan’s Hakuto-R spacecraft snapped an extraordinary image of Earth, offering a ...

Asteroid debris from a moonlet that was partially exploded by a NASA spacecraft could soar across the skies of Earth and create a stunning light show. Rocket scientist Dr. Eloy Peña-Asensio, from the ...

Dozens of boulders dislodged by NASA's asteroid-smashing DART test could hit Mars in the future, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

A world map showing the predicted range (orange) of where the Kosmos 482 probe could crash to Earth this week. (Image credit: Marilyn Perkins, adapted from PytyCzech via Getty Images) A failed Soviet ...

A Soviet space probe stuck in orbit since a failed 1972 launch has finally crashed to Earth. At 9:24 a.m. Moscow time (2:24 a.m. EDT) on May 10, the spacecraft, dubbed Kosmos 482, entered Earth’s ...