Last fall, the scientific community went into a minor frenzy. A hunk of interstellar material had been sucked into the ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

In the middle of the arid Atacama Desert, at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, an immense silver dome is being prepared to house the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) in 2028. This will be the world's ...

A scientist who has written a book on how to defend our planet from an asteroid collision, has spoken out following news of ...

The team announced its “ultrahigh energy” neutrino on Wednesday, in a paper published in the journal Nature. The finding ...

Space stations around the world are urgently collaborating to tackle the threat of a vast asteroid, hurtling towards Earth.

The Webb telescope is well-suited to identify asteroid 2024 YR4's size. Webb views a type of light we can't see with the ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...

A newly discovered asteroid being tracked by the global science community has a nearly 98% chance of zooming by Earth without ...

The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...

Humanity's most powerful eye on space will be closely examining asteroid 2024 YR4 in the coming weeks and months.