DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has launched a real-time alert system, capable of issuing up to 800,000 alerts per night, to track asteroids and exploding stars.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

Asteroid mining companies are finally getting off the ground, and that is raising some concerns about the impact those activities will have on the space environment. A new paper published in Acta ...

NASA officials and planetary defense experts have been discussing a major gap in Earth’s asteroid detection efforts: a large number of medium-sized near-Earth asteroids remain undiscovered. Reports ...

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head ...

There are four Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that have a diameter larger than 10 kilometers (6.2 miles); they are so big that ...

The big thinkers at Aperture highlight the risks and challenges of humanity’s mission to Mars.