By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...

Space agencies and thousands of astronomers are working against the clock to determine the trajectory of the body before it ...

The UN has activated planetary defense protocols for the first time to better determine the orbit, size, and threat posed by 2024 YR4, a rock discovered on December 27 that has a 1.6% chance of ...

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This discovery contradicts current theories and laws of science. It pertains to a cosmic object emitting radio waves every 22 minutes. It is a magnetar, a specific type of neutron star, which ...

Yet Romano Corradi, director of the Gran Telescopio Canarias, which is located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Spain, noted that it is “obvious” that the light pollution from such ...

Named “Nube” (Spanish for “Cloud”) by the 5-year-old daughter of one of the researchers, this nearly invisible dwarf galaxy was discovered using data from the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings. The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble ...