One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

In a rare "time-critical" decision, the James Webb Space Telescope will study the true size of the "potentially hazardous" ...

The asteroid Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small potential of entering the earth's atmosphere on December 22, 2032 and scientists ...

A recently released animation shows a new look at a large asteroid that has a small, but significant, chance of impacting ...

Scientists have found an asteroid that might smash into the Earth in December 2032. That's less than eight short years away, ...

…Don’t look up. Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid roughly the size of Big Ben will smash into the Earth in 2032. The odds of this big old space rock, 2024 YR4, striking us was only ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

The scientific community is on alert after the discovery of the asteroid 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, currently aboard the International Space Station, captured an incredible view of the world's tallest building, Burj Khalifa.