Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a curious new object started flashing across the message boards.

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

HelioLinc3D, which was developed for the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, ... An Unusual Asteroid: China’s robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, ...

Astronomers say a massive green energy project in Chile could compromise one of Earth's best chances to detect ... (VLT). Earlier this year, the VLT was used to track asteroid 2024 YR4, ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

Bullseye! How DART hit an asteroid 7 million miles away 05:09. An algorithm designed to discover near-Earth asteroids has identified its first "potentially hazardous asteroid," researchers from ...