Rubin Observatory's highly anticipated first image release conference — and they each represented an asteroid that had just been discovered. It felt like witnessing something hugely profound, and ...

The 60-meter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4.3% chance of hitting the Moon, potentially releasing 100 million kilograms of debris ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

An asteroid that was briefly feared to be on a collision course with Earth is now more likely to strike the Moon in 2032, ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and ...

It was the first and only No. 1 hit of their long and illustrious career, but the Aerosmith that performed this famed 1998 movie anthem had also lost something.

But astronomers now say that that science is telling them the asteroid will most likely miss Earth. But our planet is not ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

A massive asteroid heads toward Earth with increasing impact probability for 2032. NASA deploys the James Webb Telescope to ...