The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

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 ...

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding toward Earth at nearly 20,500 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Measuring around 40 feet in ...

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.

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

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.