It measures 130 to 300 feet across, a pebble compared to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, which is estimated to have ...

On Oct. 20, 2020, a robot spacecraft took a sample of surface dust from asteroid Bennu. On Sept. 4, 2023, as it passed by the earth en route to asteroid Apophis, it dropped off a capsule carrying that ...

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

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after assessing almost 4,000 such events captured in detail by a next-gen ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from the new galaxy.

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S., announcing that he was ...

A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

Lane, his mother as well as other budding skating stars, their families and coaches ... jet approached Runway 33 around 8:48 p.m. when it collided midair with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter ...

To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...