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

Occasionally, asteroids get caught in Earth’s orbit, temporarily becoming mini moons before continuing their cosmic paths.

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

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and would easily take out a major city, causing cataclysmic disaster that ...

The pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu returned by the Hayabusa2 mission on December 6, 2020, have been vital to improving ...

Experts know from past experiments that djerfisherite can be created when potassium-rich fluids and iron-nickel sulfides ...

The first images released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory show details of our Solar System with unprecedented clarity.

With a spectacular array of galaxies and nebulas, the ambitious telescope begins its 10-year survey of the cosmos.

The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions ...