The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking asteroid using early images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.

When Juno passed behind Jupiter from Earth's perspective, its radio signal traveled through the planet's atmosphere before ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 6The bright star Sirius dominates the southern sky ...

Discover the latest findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, from rare methane detections to high-resolution Hubble images, ...

Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

There's a lot more to the asteroid belt than meets the eye—and some of the things you may have thought you knew may be completely false! Join us for a special YouTube episode of SciShow Tangents with ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

STUNNED astronomers have spotted a new comet out in space – and it this could be a pretty special one. There’s a chance it’ll ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...