Guest blog by Luisa Doughty, Mission Manager and Sarah Cheesbrough, Misson Manager at the Satellite Applications Catapult.

These events, often called "planet parades" or "planetary alignments," though not exceedingly rare, are worth observing since they don't happen yearly.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one ...

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

NASA has released new images of a 'city-destroying' asteroid hurtling through space. This asteroid has a ...

Researchers from the University of British Columbia have calculated the chance that someone will be killed by a falling ...

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from Earth. Follow up observations have revealed that the asteroid, 2024 YR4, is ...

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

Researchers discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas — and the odds on it hitting Earth have increased since ...

A neutron star’s density is mind-boggling. These stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons packed together in a tiny radius. Just a teaspoonful of this material would weigh over a trillion ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...