The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

NASA flags an asteroid, the odds shift, and better tracking usually turns worry into a clean miss. The system improves each ...

In the early hours of December 19, 2025, a rare interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth ...

A stronomers are getting prepared for the chance to see "the most energetic lunar impact event ever recorded in human history ...

SpaceX has unveiled a new system designed to track what is moving through low Earth orbit and how close those objects come to ...

Martian Moon Deimos Might Have Reshaped Itself and Its Orbit: Dr. Matija Ćuk, SETI Institute research scientist, and collaborators propose that Mars’s smaller moon may have undergone repeated ...

Discoveries can come from the most unlikely places — at least, that's what one high schooler found out, after finding nearly 1.5 million new objects in space.

Horses detect human fear through smell alone and exhibit fearful behavior through emotional contagion mechanism.

Time moves differently in space. Near black holes, gravity slows clocks and stretches seconds. This explainer reveals how time bends and affects astronauts and Earth.

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists ...

Skywatchers across parts of North America are getting front-row seats to a lunar occultation, where Luna makes one of the ...