The threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks, as the world’s telescopes rush to track<a ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has declared a 1.6% chance that a large asteroid would strike the Earth when on Dec. 22, ...

A deep field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | mash mix: Space.com Music: Tranquil Dawn by Amber Glow / courtesy of ...

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The European Space Agency says the asteroid could destroy a city and has a 2.2 per cent chance of hitting Earth.

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

While radio jets are relatively common in the nearby Universe, they have been elusive in the early Universe. This is partly ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...