On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the latest space news, including a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans to launch and land in the Bahamas, and the ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Art of London celebrates the return of its seasonal art and culture programme, Art After Dark, headlined by artist Nelly Ben ...

This journey ... Feb. 14, 2025 — Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also ...

While astronomers at NASA and the European Space Agency have been mapping the giant asteroids that crisscross Earth’s orbit, he says, comets are much more difficult to track and therefore might ...

(Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Binzel, who developed the Torino scale for measuring the impact hazards for objects like asteroids and comets, added that scientists know that ...

This marks the first dedicated near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) observation campaign conducted through the Sharjah Astronomical Observatory. It aims to support astronomical research, enhance observational ...

Although the Catalina Sky Survey’s main job is finding near-Earth asteroids, comets do occasionally show up in the data, and “it’s a nice perk of this job that we get a comet named after us ...

It was only a few days ago that a certain fear-mongering website named, ahem, Ars Technica published an article about the prospect of a killer asteroid striking the planet Earth in the year 2032.