Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is a subject of fascination for astronomers. Though significantly smaller than Earth, ...

ESA's Gaia mission has determined he orbits of 154,741 asteroids in our solar system. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Moment a Utah ...

"This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 NJ, measuring about 65 feet wide, will make its closest approach on 7 July.

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

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

Objects from space are crashing into Earth’s atmosphere all the time. They just don’t always happen with the perfect timing ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

A potential interstellar interloper is currently zooming toward the Sun. Its strange approach angle suggests it may have come ...