YR4 might force NASA to plan the first-ever space mission to push an asteroid away from Earth. Most likely, though, it's a ...

Spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on December 27, 2024, the asteroid is estimated to be ...

Astronomers have spotted a space rock an estimated 200 feet in length that they say could soon be headed for Earth. As the New York Times reports, the rock, dubbed 2024 YR4, has a 1.3 percent chance ...

When the Palisades fire erupted, he stayed at his home to try to defend it. He died at 80. (Photos courtesy of Maya Amans) Expand Mark Shterenberg was a retired engineer who steadfastly believed in ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

A high-tech sensor designed and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has now traveled farther than 250 ...

Join experts from Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and the University of Colorado Boulder to learn more about the environmental hazards of smoke an ...

NASA JPL is diving into an eventful 2025 with ambitious space missions despite challenges like the Eaton Fire. Exciting ...

"We're really grateful for the space community and their care at this challenging time — but exploration continues, so we ...

Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon ...

NASA has warned two massive asteroids 2025 BS4 and 2025 BH2 are set to come dangerously close to Earth today. Asteroid 2025 ...