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

I analysed over 200,000 errors across 11,842 films released between 1930 and 2025, to understand where and how audiences say movies gets facts, physics, and history wrong.

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...

A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officiall.

For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

NASA officials and planetary defense experts have been discussing a major gap in Earth’s asteroid detection efforts: a large number of medium-sized near-Earth asteroids remain undiscovered. Reports ...

A car sized asteroid can sound like a cliffhanger, yet the real tension lives in the math. NASA’s trackers list 2026 CR2 for a close pass on Feb. 17, 2026, moving about 12,616 miles per hour, with an ...

In a stark and widely reported warning, NASA’s planetary defence chief has revealed that Earth currently has no reliable way to stop thousands of “cit.

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed to 3.1 percent. This was the highest probability of a strike by an object of ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The space rock known as "2026 CC" measures ...

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026. Image from Gianluca Masi/Virtual Telescope Project www.virtualtelescope.eu A massive near-Earth asteroid of “planet ...

Scientists expect a sharp increase in the discovery of near-Earth asteroids as the next generations of astronomical survey facilities come online. That includes detection of objects that could ...