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

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...

The KM3NeT telescope comprises two detectors, ARCA and ORCA, utilizing seawater to capture Cherenkov light—a bluish glow produced when neutrinos interact with water molecules.

NASA’s Webb Space Telescope reveals ancient surface of Pluto and other celestial bodies for the first time - Scientists say ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

A team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad has discovered a giant planet bigger than Earth but ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was ...

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a habitable world. The exoplanet HD 20794 d is just under six times the mass of Earth ...