(NEW YORK) -- The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues ...

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A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...

Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy. The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away.

An asteroid measuring as wide as 295 feet is possibly headed right toward Earth, but don't run for cover just yet.

ALMA picks up signals from big dust grains, about the size of sand grains, showing that they are concentrated in a thin, ...

ESA is closely monitoring the recently discovered asteroid #2024YR4. The asteroid has an almost 99% chance of safely passing ...

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With ...

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

A release from the station claims that 94.5 is “pressing pause on all things Taylor Swift.” The announcement came after a ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...