Williams and another astronaut, Butch Wilmore, were supposed to stay in space for a week in 2024, but concerns about the ...

Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

NASA says Artemis II is a major step toward returning humans to the moon — and eventually sending astronauts to Mars. For the ...

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NASA and international observers confirm that Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) will reach its closest point to the Sun—known as ...

The final appropriations bill aims to maintain NASA's budgets from 2024 and 2025, instead of cutting the agency's allocations ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it ...

On Feb. 18, 2025, NASA updated the probability of asteroid "2024 YR4" impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, from 2.6% to 3.1%. The European Space Agency (ESA) also updated its estimate of the probability ...

NASA officials this week said recent calculations show a significantly smaller risk than previously believed that Earth could be annihilated in 2032 as a result of being hit by Asteroid 2024 YR4. The ...

The probability of the asteroid hitting Earth has fluctuated over the past few weeks Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously ...