Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned redshift measurements that confirmed that the burst had come from around 12.5 ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...
NASA warns about asteroid 2025 BK, a giant 160-ft space rock speeding towards Earth at 37,583 kilometres per hour.
2024 PT5 is the second near-Earth asteroid scientists suspect was ejected from the moon's surface, the first being 469219 ...
In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
Einstein Probe's Wide-field X-ray Telescope (WXT) detected a burst of low-energy X-rays. Astronomers call such X-rays "soft," ...
A big asteroid, the size of the Empire State Building, called 2024 WY70 is on a collision course with Earth this weekend.
Astronomy and shooting seem to have little in common. But two space missions since 2004 resemble skeet shooting, albeit on a ...
Why hadn't we noticed it sooner? - NASA and all of humanity failed to locate this asteroid. They are small in size and the ...
Planet Nine", dubbed, has fascinated scientists for its ability to account for "anomalous" motions of objects located faraway ...
NASA warns of a giant asteroid, 2024 WY70, approaching Earth at 36,606 km/h. At 820 feet wide and as big as a football ...