NASA’s NEO Surveyor has passed its critical design review, clearing the way for construction and testing. This infrared ...

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

Lunar tourists and ambitious space agencies could jeopardise vital research on the Moon by ruining locations needed for ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

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

Where things stand: The chances of the asteroid hitting Earth currently stand at 2.1%, or about 1 in 47, and could fall to ...

YR4 is circling Earth and NASA predicts it could strike the planet in 2032. Here's what to know about the asteroid headed ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Dr Martin Elvis, an astrophysicist at Harvard University, said particular areas on the far side of the Moon provide a unique ...