After the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed in 2020, the NASA dish ramped up its radio astronomy to fill the void.

In February, the James Webb Space Telescope will briefly be able to observe asteroid 2024 YR4, which currently has a 4 per ...

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

A person walks under blooming jacaranda trees in a suburban street in Pretoria, South Africa, 12 October 2022 ...

Building on that legacy, Lowell Observatory played a key role in the world’s first Planetary Defense mission in 2022, DART ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

The Moon was struck by two asteroids last week, and the activity was caught on camera by a Japanese astronomer. The impact has likely gouged craters several feet wide. There were massive bursts of ...

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...

US orders diplomats’ families to leave Ukraine as concerns of a Russian invasion grow. Rob and Roy look at the vocabulary used in the news headlines about this story. Tennis star Rafael Nadal won a ...