According to a recent YouGov poll, 35% of Americans think Pluto is not a planet. But they are all wrong—kind of. To get to ...

At the end of 2024, astronomers detected an asteroid in the night sky. It was given the designation Y, since it was ...

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

YR4 has a 2.2% chance of striking Earth in seven years, but recent updates keep pushing the odds in the wrong direction.

On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...

The possibility of the asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting our planet might not be ruled out until 2028, raising the prospect we’ll ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

These are known as hypervelocity stars, with some moving faster than the escape velocity of the Milky Way of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) per second. There is another star that is almost as ...

American space agency NASA awarded a NIAC grant to ThinkOrbital for a study into building a shipyard in space using ...