The asteroid has been given a rating of 3 out of 10, indicating a "close encounter, meriting attention by astronomers." ...

NASA's SPHEREx telescope, launching Feb. 27, will scan the galaxy for frozen water and ices, mapping molecular clouds to ...

New findings explain the Phoenix cluster's mysterious starburst. Data confirm the cluster is actively cooling and able to generate a huge amount of stellar fuel on its own.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an amazing view of interacting galaxies Arp 142. Arp 142 consists of a distorted ...

STORY: The James Webb Space Telescope - launched to study things like the formation of the earliest galaxies - is going to be ...

Discovered on December 27, 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently rated as a three on the Torino scale. Space agencies around the world are closely monitoring ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a glass to the past, revealing elements of the early universe. Over the past two ...

Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS ...

YR4 has a roughly 2 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, and “is large enough to cause localized damage,” NASA says.

Astronomers say the asteroid, estimated at 40-90 m (131-295 ft.) in diameter, could impact Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. “It is ...

The $10 billion orbiting observatory will give astronomers a better sense of the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4's size and ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...