It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world's telescopes ...

Discovered on December 27, 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently rated as a three on the Torino scale. Space agencies around the world are closely monitoring ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

We might already be too late to knock ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 out of the way with a tested method, a scientist has ...

UC Irvine astronomers used a 3D global computer model to compare the climates of exoplanets in different stellar and orbital configurations. They found that a planet orbiting a white dwarf star would ...

Watch as a city-killer asteroid set to possibly crash into Earth in 2032 zooms away from Earth in new telescope footage.

Dark oxygen, a newly identified form of oxygen, raises questions about life in extreme environments and its implications for ...

NASA is making emergency preparations to deal with a ‘city-killing’ asteroid after the odds of it smashing into Earth ...

In eight years' time, an asteroid dozens of meters in size could hit the Earth. One of our best instruments is now to ...

NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency's Pandora mission, which will study ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It ...