YR₄ is no longer a threat to Earth, but the moon is not yet safe. Even observations from space have not changed this.

Venus becomes the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, the Lyrids Meteor Shower takes place and the Moon has ...

Auroras occur when energetic particles, often from the sun, are caught in a planet's magnetic field and collide with the ...

In the center of the Einstein ring is a lensing galaxy called an elliptical galaxy, which is smooth and shaped like an oval.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach ...

The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...

Fram2, a first-of-its-kind private mission to send four astronauts into polar orbit around Earth, is about to launch ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

A discovery in a distant galaxy has left scientists scratching their heads as their findings challenge our understanding of ...

On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...

A newborn star, a blast of glowing gas, and a distant spiral galaxy — all caught in one stunning snapshot by the James Webb ...

The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2025 class. The NHFP ...