Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...
This comet is best seen through a telescope or binoculars, but it may be visible to the unaided eye this week!
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) will be the first telescope specifically engineered to identify habitable, Earth-like ...

Star Trek

They have been there for millennia, before the earth was born, taking light years to reach us. For all you know, that shining ...
The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...
Our scientists are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build a core instrument for a flagship NASA mission to search for life on distant ...
The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...
One of the leading voices arguing that 3I/ATLAS may be an alien spacecraft has revealed when humans may discovery the ...
Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...