Scientists Believe an Asteroid Might Crash Into the Moon in 2032, a Once-in-5,000-Year Event A recently discovered asteroid ...

The Senate appropriations committee initially voted in favor of a bill rejecting Trump's NASA budget cuts, but discussions ...

At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could ...

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The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to ...

According to the American Astronomical Society, some cuts would include projects that help us understand the sun’s effects on global communications, a potential national security threat.

More and more satellites are orbiting the earth. Grant Tremblay of the American Astronomical Society tells NPR's Scott Simon they are making stars harder to see and study.

The month that brings the anniversary of the lunar landing also features great meteor showers and Manhattanhenge's second act ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have tectonic features or a patchwork of ridges and cliffs. Using the Hubble space ...

Astronomers have smashed the record for the largest-known cloud of energetic particles discovered surrounding a galactic cluster—and the find could shake up established physics. The cluster in ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

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