University of Hawaii astronomers are playing a pivotal role in tracking an asteroid once feared to pose a risk to Earth.
Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...
NASA’s double-asteroid redirection test, launched in 2022, was an actual experiment in space. It sent a rocket to strike an ...
A stronomers detected a 40-to-80-meter asteroid, dubbed a “city killer,” with the potential to collide with Earth in 2032, ...
Researchers in Hong Kong have built a tiny drone that can zip through the air at speeds of over 44 miles per hour (70 kph), ...
Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...
The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will take stock of water’s cosmic origins by scanning the galaxy for hidden reservoirs.
It was a meteoric rise. The odds that “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike our planet just increased again, hitting a ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope provided an unprecedented view of events surrounding our galaxy's central black hole. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and Elon Musk target U.S. civil service for ...
The U.S. space agency said the probability of Asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 has grown to 3.1%, or a 1-in-32 chance. Earlier in January, NASA had put the chance of the asteroid impacting ...