A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

YR₄ has now been observed hundreds of times, but an impact still cannot be ruled out. The first images are also available.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall could strike Earth on Dec.22, 2032, alerting planetary defense ...

Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.

Scientists around the world are watching asteroid 2024 YR4 closely as NASA and European Space Agency officials say the ...

A recently discovered, sizable asteroid may come within striking distance of Earth in less than eight years. But although the ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) ...