Astronomers can usually spot "planet killer" asteroids long before they approach Earth. But what if they can't?

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Contrary to online rumors, Earth still only has one true moon, but astronomers have discovered a so-called 'quasi-moon.' Here ...

The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark ...

The reason people might think Earth has a second moon is due to a celestial body named 2025 PN7 that was spotted in August by ...

Astronomers have identified 2025 SC79, a new asteroid with a remarkably fast 128-day orbit, placing it among the second-fastest ever observed. This "twilight asteroid" orbits close to the Sun, ...

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet ...

Just in time for Hallowe'en in 2024, Hubble and JWST captured an image of two interacting spiral galaxies — IC 2163 and NGC ...

No, the Earth does not have two moons, stressed Dr Alfredo Carpineti, a science writer for IFLScience. Dr Carpineti, the ...

In a remarkable feat of celestial detection, astronomers have uncovered a skyscraper-size asteroid that was previously concealed in the sun’s glare. This colossal space rock is not only notable for ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb warns that 3I/ATLAS could be an extraterrestrial “Trojan horse” whose presence has major ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically ...