On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network reached the United Nations Office for ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer to the planet than the moon— prompting the scientists to declare the asteroid had the potential to some day slam into Earth. The elite ...

Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

“Most likely this one will pass by harmlessly,” Colin Snodgrass, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “It just deserves a little more ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought could produce such a signal.

And yes, that makes it the only one of more-than 37,000 known large space rocks near Earth with such odds. But astronomers who are keeping a close eye on the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, expect that the ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Just when you think you understand an astrophysical phenomenon, the universe turns around and surprises us,’ says scientist ...

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