Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 6The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky late this evening, blazing high in the south around 10 P.M. local time. You ...
In Gorillaz’s new short film, The Mountain, the Moon Cave and the Sad God, characters 2D, Russel, Noodle, and Murdoc are on a ...
Scouts where JR, Roo, and Sprocket must find a way to stop a disco asteroid from hitting their school while outwitting the ...
Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...
NASA is monitoring an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space rock known as "2026 CC" measures ...
NASA is currently tracking a bus-sized asteroid set to zip past the Earth on January 31 at a whopping 8,478 miles per hour. Known as 2022 OC3, the space rock is estimated to be about 24 feet across ...
Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...
Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters) ...
Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove incredibly destructive, like the 60-foot Chelyabinsk meteor that exploded over ...
NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/P. Marenfeld / NSF's NOIRLab Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking ...
Other than fictional representations, like Harry Vanderspeigle in SYFY and USA Network's Resident Alien (now streaming on Peacock), as far as we know, life has only ever arisen here on Earth. But the ...
An illustration of the asteroid Apophis, which will make a close flyby of the Earth in April 2029. Credit: ESA Science Office A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from ...