"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Made from over 1,100 images captured by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the video begins with a close-up of two galaxies ...

An asteroid, approximately the size of a small aircraft, will safely pass by Earth today, posing no threat to our planet, confirms NASA.

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...

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

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

In its first year alone, it will double the amount of data collected so far by every other instrument in the history of optical astronomy ...

To mark the 10th anniversary of World Asteroid Day, a global live stream will showcase near-Earth asteroids and highlight ...