Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.3% chance of impacting Earth at the end of December 2032.

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Paranal telescope operator Marcela Espinoza says it's essential for Chile to preserve 'the best skies in the world' so that other countries keep choosing the region to install their telescopes ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The risk of an asteroid hitting Earth has doubled in a week – but there are no plans yet to build a spacecraft to ­deflect the football pitch-sized rock. A 90-metre-wide space rock passed Earth on ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact to Earth.