NASA's upcoming EDGE satellite mission, led by UC San Diego, uses lasers to deliver unprecedented 3D mapping of Earth.

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

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

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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The University of Texas at Austin announced on X that it will be the first university to partner with the U.S. Space Force, thanks to a $9.3 million seed grant from the Texas Space ...

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

Last Updated on February 28, 2026 by Daily News Staff For decades, the idea of aliens visiting Earth has lived in a cultural ...

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 ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...

On nights when an asteroid is scheduled to pass Earth, a certain type of silence is present. It's not a storm warning's ...