Space Astronomy Cosmology Scientists think they saw an asteroid crash into a dead star — and release one of the brightest explosions in the universe News By Paul Sutter published July 10, 2023 ...

When NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in October 2026, it won't just be peering into the distant universe to ...

While this research has failed to spot the fifth force, it does offer more evidence of how precise observations can reveal what's hidden in the Universe – and how asteroids can play an important ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully returned a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2023, has provided significant new insights into both the asteroid’s composition and the ...

A look at how astronomers and the public are collectively celebrating asteroid science on International Asteroid Day.

A space rock the size of a cruise liner will have a close encounter with Earth in April 2029. While the asteroid Apophis won’t hit Earth, NASA and ESA are both planning missions to tag along.

Yet the fact that it was only the sixth asteroid ever discovered before it grazed Earth's atmosphere and turned into a fireball had Kareta and his team racing to observe it before it disappeared ...

Or maybe not. Plenty of experts take issue with the idea that we’ve been fundamentally wrong about everything, but the point is, the people who are possibly getting something wrong this week ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine just how likely it is to strike Earth in 2032. The ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has taught us a lot about the nature of asteroids and the history of our planet, and it's not done yet. A new study of Bennu tracking data gives us fresh clues on a ...