Saturn is visible in the early hours ... Credit: Astronomy: Roen Kelly Get a kick out of following an asteroid from your city balcony or backyard with only five minutes of dark adapting.

Asteroid 2025 KX8, about the size of a small jet, will make a close approach to Earth on June 4, 2025. While it poses no immediate threat, scientists are closely monitoring its trajectory.

The asteroid, about a third of a mile wide at its equator, poses no immediate threat to our planet. But hundreds of years from now, there is a small chance that Bennu could slam into Earth.

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before making a final visit to a distant comet. Tianwen-2 blasted off from Xichang ...

Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million kilometers. Though not considered a hazardous asteroid, its size and speed ...

A massive asteroid, expected to be larger than San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, will pass close to Earth on June 5. Measuring between 1,017 and 2,264 feet, it is bigger than 97 per cent of ...

An enormous asteroid—big enough to leave a six-mile-wide crater and darken the world with dust if it hit Earth—will harmlessly zip by our planet on April 29. The object, called 1998 OR2 ...

Six planets will be visible in the night sky this June: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter. Mercury will be visible west of the sunset until July 6. Venus, Mars, Saturn and Neptune ...

The Saturn V rocket was part of the technology that made the Apollo mission successful and played a pivotal role in launching Apollo 11 to the Moon in 1969, marking a turning point in human history.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and other agencies are studying a large asteroid that was discovered in 2024. While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven ...

Starting on May 24 until April 12, 2028, a major shift is occurring in the cosmos. Saturn, the planet of responsibility, discipline, authority, and structure is moving from Pisces to Aries for the ...

Credit: image by Gianluca Masi, The Virtual Telescope Project. A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million km ...