As if searching through the cosmos like a detective on an intense investigation looking for an ancient piece of evidence, the Hubble Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary happening happening ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

NASA confirmed that a bus-sized asteroid passed Earth on 22 December 2025 in a routine flyby that had been tracked well in ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, a 53–67 meter wide object discovered by Chile's ATLAS telescope in late 2024, poses a significant threat ...

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...

In December 2024, astronomers using a Chilean telescope, part of the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), discovered an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that may be on a collision course ...

Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a time of violent turmoil, with planetesimals, asteroids, and comets smashing together and pelting the Earth ...

The 1998 KY26 asteroid, the destination of Japan's Hayabusa2 unmanned probe in its ongoing space mission, may be far smaller than researchers had estimated. In December 2020, Hayabusa2 dropped on ...

NASA is closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4 after scientists identified a potential lunar impact path in 2032. While it ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are constantly orbiting close to our planet. Every night, astronomers track NEOs and ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of 10 to 15 km hit the earth. The scale of this collision is one of the three in the history of the earth, and is thought to have been the cause ...