No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.
The roughly four-billion-year-old system consists of a black hole and two orbiting stars—a configuration that's never been seen before.
After months of intense solar flares, NASA confirms that the Sun has reached the most active period of its cycle.
Until now, only 6% of meteorites had a known source, but now we can trace the origin of more than 70% of these rocks.
The phenomenon, known as an anti-tail, is an optical illusion caused by the Earth's position in the comet's orbital plane.
260 observations showcase data from ESA's dark matter telescope, which will eventually be used to create the largest-ever 3D map of the cosmos.
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
The famous red eye of the storm squeezes in and out for reasons unknown.
The event could cause glowing in the atmosphere and damage electrical infrastructure when it arrives, but we won't know the severity of the event until it's near.
The gargantuan object is driving a "cosmic two-for-one" that could shed light on the source of a weird kind of X-ray.
Mars is generally regarded as a place that can't support life, but new research sheds light on how the Red Planet evolved into the barren, inhospitable world we see today.
We've seen faces on Mars before, but this one is the most relatable.
Centaur 29P, an icy object in the outer solar system, is spewing unusual jets of hot gas, revealing its hybrid nature as a mashup of different cosmic bodies.
The storm should arrive today or tomorrow, and could bring with it some brilliant auroras.
The newly identified three-body system has a problem, and it’s not aliens—it’s that in about 20 million years, the stars are expected to merge and explode.
A gravitational lens tripled the event in the night sky and helped astronomers measure the rate at which the universe is expanding.
While the storm could pose a threat to fragile electric systems, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the danger is minor.
The yet-to-be-named comet will make its closest approach to the Sun on October 28, and it could either burn up into oblivion or put on a fantastic show.
The upcoming annular eclipse will block out only a small portion of the Sun, and almost no one will be able to see it.
There's an exoplanet whipping around Barnard's star, and there may be up to three others yet to be detected.
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