Astronomers are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which was originally spotted in late 2024. A NASA dashboard gave the chance of the asteroid colliding with Earth a 1.9% chance of happening around Dec. 22, ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

NASA has issued a message message after reports of the discovery of a ‘city-destroying’ asteroid, 2024 YR4, that could hit ...

A Milky Way-surveying spacecraft found a planet 12 times more massive than Jupiter, along with a brown dwarf, each distantly orbiting stars smaller than the sun. Scientists have dubbed the exoplanet, ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

The United Nations has activated its Planetary Security Protocol for the first time in history. The catalyst for this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...

Picture of the Month showcases the powerful telescope's ability to capture detailed resolution of even the tiniest of cosmic ...