Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

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

Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

Starlink satellites are at risk if a “city killer” asteroid crashes into the Moon, experts have warned. The European Space ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the aspiring astronomer to avoid science.

A rarely seen daytime fireball that may have been dropped by a meteor was spotted across the Southeast on Thursday — creating a sonic boom that blared through the region.

NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but beyond ...

The mysterious blast site of the Tunguska Event of 1908 is revealed in satellite images obtained by NASA’s Operational Land ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

While ground- and space-based telescopes spot about 20,000 asteroids each year, Rubin Observatory is expected to uncover millions of the space rocks within its first two years, according to the ...

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory named for trailblazing astronomer Vera Rubin have captured the light from millions of distant stars and ...