Space agencies worldwide are gearing up missions in 2025 to expand humanity's horizons, from the moon and Mars to asteroids ...

James Webb Space Telescope discovers 138 asteroids, including 6 on Earth-bound paths. Small, decameter-sized threats ...

Astronomers are keeping an eye on asteroid 2024 XU9. This 110-foot space rock will pass Earth on 14 December 2024. Despite its "near-miss" label, experts confirm there’s no danger. How Close ...

A huge asteroid with is set to fly past Earth on Friday the 13th in 2029 - at a distance of less than 20,000 miles. The massive 1,000-metre-wide cosmic projectile is 28 times bigger than the ...

Take a belt, for example. An accoutrement that has the very important job of keeping a man’s pants up, belts also have the power to complete a look. And since they’re literally placed at the ...

The Geminids are an astronomical highlight of the year, creating a spectacular show of shooting stars every December.

Councils across the UK are set to be forced to surrender parts of the green belt to achieve new government housing targets, it has been announced. The government has pledged to build 1.5 million ...

The Northern Hemisphere will get an additional show of glittering lights this holiday season as a major annual meteor shower peaks during the weekend, bookending a year of magical celestial happenings ...

An artist’s illustration of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing, in the infrared, a population of small main-belt asteroids. Credit: Ella Maru and Julien de Wit Researchers at MIT have ...

The spectacular Geminid meteor shower will peak this Friday, producing up to 120 shooting stars per hour under perfect ...

Using a new approach, an international research team has succeeded in discovering by far the smallest asteroids in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Some of them have a diameter of no ...