Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

“The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on 22 December 2032 is now approximately 4 percent, and this ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

A new telescope will find billions of asteroids, galaxies and stars The Economist Updated on: Jun 29, 2025 10:34 AM IST ...

This observatory was built to help scientists and astronomers to study the cosmos, and just in its first moments online, it ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...

Asteroids are small rocky bodies that travel around the Sun. They are much smaller than planets. They are very important because they can give us clues about the early composition of the Solar System.

Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...