It has been a busy start to 2025 for astronomy lovers with plenty of planets spread across the sky, the moon passing between Mars and Earth in an eclipse-like event, and, in the Southern Hemisphere, ...
"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...
Avi Loeb shares the story of how a Tesla Roadster had some astronomers convinced for a time that they had discovered a new ...
A small asteroid, referred to as Earth's temporary "mini-moon," could actually be a piece of the Moon that broke away ...
Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars' intense heat.
Astronomers have found two planets around two separate stars that are succumbing to their stars’ intense heat. Both are ...
As humankind imagines living off-planet — on the moon, Mars and beyond — the question of how to sustain life revolves around the physical necessities of oxygen, food and water. We know there is water ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
Heads up, everybody. A couple of asteroids approximately the size of a school bus are set to make close approach with Earth ...
Interestingly for a candidate for lieutenant governor, Dean Odle’s 2019 book is filled with conspiratorial tales of a flat ...
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.