A spectacular solar eclipse will be visible across the entire continental U.S. this weekend, offering people from coast to coast the chance to see the moon take a “bite” out of the sun and affording lucky sky-watchers...
Evening stargazers may have noticed Venus shining bright above the western horizon in recent weeks, appearing higher in the sky with each passing night. The planet will continue to be a prominent feature through the...
On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.
The chunk...
Last week, a lonely SpaceX rocket blasted off from California with NASA's ambitious Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). The first-of-its-kind mission will rendezvous with a duo of asteroids next year, called Didymos and Dimorphos, to test the Earth's best - and...
NASA said on Monday that its mission to deflect an asteroid in deep space using a spacecraft is targeting a late November launch.
Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the U.S. space agency will...
Scientists have spotted two supermassive black holes eating away at cosmic materials as two galaxies in distant space are merging together. This is reportedly the nearest to colliding black holes that astronomers have ever caught...
AN ASTEROID bigger than Edinburgh Castle is heading towards Earth's orbit on Saturday, NASA warns.
The massive asteroid, about the size of a stadium, is hurtling towards Earth and will soar past on July 24. It is...
Solar activity refers to the state of the sun’s magnetic field and associated phenomena: sunspots, flares, solar wind and coronal ejections. During periods of minimal solar activity, such events are often uncommon and weak. During solar maximum,...
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2023 TV3 will fly past Earth at a distance of 0.2 LD / 0.00056 AU (83 034 km / 51 595 miles) at 12:54 UTC on October 12, 2023.
This is the...
Authorities this week confirmed that a large fireball streaked its way across the skies of multiple states, a sight that was reportedly accompanied by a loud booming noise as well.
As many as several dozen people...