From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

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After the Boeing Starliner's troubled June 2024 flight test, Starliner will get another NASA mission. But it will be uncrewed ...

If you've been worrying about reports of a possible asteroid impact in 2032, we have very good news. NASA has dropped the probability of an impact from asteroid 2024 YR4 — at first to 1 in 67, and now ...

NASA has considerably lowered the risk of the asteroid 2024 YR4’s collision with Earth. In a news release on Monday, Feb. 24, the space agency announced that the asteroid — which, one week ago, was ...

Boeing's infamous Starliner could launch again in 2026 on a NASA mission to the International Space Station. But this time, ...

The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, confirming Monday ...

On July 18, 2024, a photograph purportedly released by NASA spread on X, allegedly showing the April 8, 2024, total eclipse. "One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024. Via NASA," ...

NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover ...

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 ...