Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

Should YR4 strike the Moon, the collision could eject up to 100 million kilograms of lunar debris into space. A portion of this material might enter Earth’s orbit, posing risks to satellites and other ...

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

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

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

To mark the 10th anniversary of World Asteroid Day, a global live stream will showcase near-Earth asteroids and highlight ...

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world's most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier ...

Astronomers have begun analysing the first cosmic images from Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which houses the world’s ...

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

Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory has made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting 2,100 new asteroids in just 10 hours. With ...