Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on collision course with the moon and could fire shrapnel at Earth

Asteroid 2024 YR4 could result in the largest impact on the moon for the past 5000…

Why you should join a watch party to see the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/A. Pizarro D I have never been to a watch…

The Milky Way’s black hole may be spinning at top speed

An image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy…

Proba-3: Stunning pictures show the first ever artificial solar eclipse

The sun’s corona, shown similarly to how a human eye would see it during an eclipse,…

Perseverance rover may hold secrets to newly discovered Mars volcano

A suspected volcano (circled) is close to the large Jezero crater on Mars NASA/JPL/MSSS/JHUAPL/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/Aster Cowart…

The Vera Rubin Observatory is about to completely transform astronomy

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The Vera Rubin Observatory is about to completely transform astronomy

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Trump’s cuts to NASA and the National Science Foundation will have huge consequences

Artemis I sits at Launch Pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center Tribune Content Agency LLC/Alamy The…

These images are the first time we have seen the sun’s south pole

The south pole of the sun has never been seen before ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team,…

‘Impossible’ particle that hit Earth may have been dark matter

A blazar may have blasted dark matter at Earth M. Weiss/CfA/NASA An extremely high-energy particle that…