The third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS, currently wandering in our solar system, is changing shapes and emitting different ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

First discovered on May 24, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) reached its perihelion on October 8, 2025. It will be closest to Earth on November 25, 2025, ...

A Japanese astronomer captured two lunar impact flashes — caused by meteor strikes on the moon — just two days apart on video ...

Daichi Fujii has logged about 60 impacts on the Moon since 2011, giving astronomers fresh data on asteroid strike rates.

Two new studies suggest that, contrary to longstanding belief, dinosaurs were not on the decline before the Chicxulub ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

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For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

NASA’s kinetic impact test successfully changed an asteroid’s orbit, with upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and new low-cost ...