"For asteroids of the size scale relevant to planetary defense (i.e., ∼50-500 m), the mass can only be directly measured ...

A 170-foot asteroid is set to race past Earth today at extraordinary speed, NASA says. Though no impact is expected, ...

Two landers manufactured by Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines were briefly on the moon at the same time in March 2025. Here's what happened.

More than 3,000 objects from the late 1800s found buried under a ski resort in Utah, marking a mining town's history ...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

Earth’s shadow reddens March’s full worm moon. Will moonset cut viewing short for South Florida and Palm Beach County?

Astronomers first spotted comet 3I/Atlas in data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in ...

Rubin Observatory begins sending hundreds of thousands of nightly alerts as it prepares for its 10-year sky survey, tracking supernovae, asteroids, galaxies and other changing objects in near real ...

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 ...

The newly discovered object dubbed the Great Comet of 2026 may become visible to the naked eye during its close solar pass in April.

A total lunar eclipse, also known as a "blood moon," will occur early on Tuesday, March 3. Western states will see the full ...

Earth’s shadow reddens March’s full worm moon. Will moonset cut viewing short for South Florida and Palm Beach County?