Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.

Asteroid hunter David Rankin first "pre-covered" (short for pre-discovery recovery) asteroid 2024 YR4 in data from the Catalina Sky Survey. In simple terms, this means he was able to find images of ...

The near-earth object first discovered in 2024 has stirred up conversation on social media because of the potential for an ...

The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...

A 1-in-83 chance of an impact represented a 1.2% chance of an impact. That meant there was a 98.8% that 2024 YR4 would miss ...

A 60-metre-long asteroid has a chance of slamming into Earth within the next decade, telescope observations have revealed.Researchers from Arizona’s Catalina Sky Survey discovered what has become ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

If 2024 YR4 hit, it could be more like 8 to 10 megatons, says Carson Fuls, director of the Catalina Sky Survey at the ...

Videos on social media showed burning debris from the rocket streaking across the sky, reportedly over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Image: Debris from the SpaceX launch streaks across the sky.

As Mercury closes in on its greatest elongation east (farthest from the sun in Earth's sky) on March 8, the tiny inner planet will be between Saturn and Venus close to the western horizon.

BoyleSport, who offer the latest football betting odds, carried out a survey involving 1,000 British football fans, in which they had to vote for their favourite pundit - and the results were very ...

NASA is also working with several observatories, such as Pan-STARRS1 at Hawaii and the Catalina Sky Survey at Arizona, and also the space-based telescopes, such as NEOWISE. This means scientists ...