Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The ...

NASA is just days away from launching Artemis II, the historic mission that will send humans back to the Moon’s neighbourhood ...

An ailing astronaut has returned to Earth with three others, ending their space station mission more than a month early in ...

NASA will soon roll out the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft to their launch pad at the Kennedy ...

A geologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland discussed potential difficulties of mining rare earth minerals ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Solar wind (yellow-orange trails) strips ions from Earth’s upper atmosphere (sky-blue trails). Some of these particles travel along Earth’s magnetic field lines (solid white curves) and settle on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A new study reveals that ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...

CHARLESTON — Even the moon wants to ring in the New Year, with the first full supermoon of 2026 set to appear this weekend in a rare timing in the alignment of Earth, the moon and sun. A supermoon ...

A new year means new skywatching events to look forward to, and January holds a few things worth seeing. Most of the month's skywatching events happen on the same day — Jan. 3. Jan. 3 is the first ...