Dr Robin George Andrews, a volcanologist and author based in London, warns that 'we might not be able to stop 2024 YR4'.

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.

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

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

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 ...

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

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

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 ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

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

Summer-a time when the urge to explore places familiar and new beckons to young and old alike. Although the sun sets late during the summer months, we inevitably find ourselves outside looking at ...