William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...

A Chinese defence agency is recruiting space researchers following the discovery of a large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent ...

A large asteroid is approaching Earth! Should we worry? We explore NASA's warning about this 93-foot space rock and its ...

NASA’s decision to swap capsules with SpaceX enables astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore to return from the ...

NASA is preparing to bring home two astronauts after an unplanned extended stay at the International Space Station.

Both have confirmed when NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore are set to return home, and the plans involved in ...

After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is ...

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

The volcanologist threw cold water on the defense potential of the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft, which knocked the 580-foot-wide asteroid Dimorphos off course in 2022.

An aerospace engineer has invented an appliance that can whip up quiches, pizzas and more in a zero-gravity environment ...

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever collected. These fragments date back 4.5 billion years and contain salts, ...

Is Earth in danger of getting hit by another asteroid that wipes out living creatures? Not quite. Astronomers at space agencies around the world are closely watching ...