Estimating a mass for a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) is perhaps the single most important thing to understand about ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

The Rubin Observatory’s real-time alert system can detect millions of cosmic events per night, from asteroids to supernovae, ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Today's holodeck mission of Star Trek: Scouts features the team trying to track down a thief and familiar foe, Shadowtrix, ...

Musk’s vision for cities on the moon and Mars is an attempt to make science fiction a reality.

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

In Madison and nearby southeast Missouri counties, William Jud, a Fredericktown geologist, may have identified a buried ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of ...

Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin ...