Around 16-17 June, Mars will appear to pass close to Regulus, the bright star at the heart of the constellation Leo, the lion ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

A paper by astronomers Nathan Kaib and Sean Raymond released earlier this month used new simulations to determine how likely ...

It’s midday and we’re minutes from landing at Alice Springs Airport. From my window seat the red centre looks ...

A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

After months of tracking and refining Asteroid 2024 YR4's orbit, NASA scientists were able to rule out an Earth strike. There's no real risk to the planet in seven years or afterward, according to the ...

"The fact that there is only around a 50-50 chance of a merger was very surprising." ...

Astronomers have revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a 50/50 chance of colliding with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which measures around 1,300 feet in diameter.

The odds of a galactic collision in our distant future are much lower than we thought, according to new simulations.

Scientists previously predicted the pair of galaxies would merge in about five billion years. Now, research suggests that ...

Watch how Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after traveling close to the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric ...