Paul Wiegert, a Western physics and astronomy professor, shares insights on asteroid 2024 YR4 and the likelihood it will hit Earth or the Moon.

At up to 30 km wide, 3I/ATLAS is officially dummy thicc—with two Cs and a tail. Astronomers are calling it “the Lizzo of ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was asked about President Trump saying he wanted to grant a "temporary pass" to farmers.

PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...

Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Radar systems like those used at airports may be inadvertently revealing our existence to advanced extraterrestrial ...

The widely anticipated first images collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering nothing short of ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Astronomers are calling for images of Saturn captured over the weekend that may help document a rare impact event with a ...