Astronomers analyzing archived NASA data have stumbled upon a cosmic event unlike anything seen before—a brief but intense ...

An asteroid being tracked by NASA made national headlines earlier this week when the space agency predicted the object had a 3% chance of colliding with the Earth in 2032.

A new radar-based volcano monitoring system developed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and U.S. Geological Survey will ...

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched in the coming months from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China National ...

William Byron is now a two-time Daytona 500 champion, and his legacy is being built on that. But Byron wants more, driving ...

On May 27, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope detected X-rays from a new source, labeled EP J0052. Follow-up observations were conducted using the probe's Follow-up X-ray Telescope, as well as NASA's ...

A new adaptive optics technology is set to transform gravitational-wave detection, allowing LIGO and future observatories like Cosmic Explorer to reach new heights. By correcting mirror distortions, ...

It's not great news, but don't panic: Astronomers spotted an asteroid that has a roughly 3.1% chance of impacting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. Space agencies are monitoring the newly discovered asteroid ...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of ...

Observatories across Europe and in Hawaii and Texas contributed to the study appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The double-sided radio wave is estimated to be at least 200,000 light ...

It’s a grand sort of question and one of many being researched at Sierra Remote Observatories (or SRO), a five-acre facility Quattrocchi co-founded in 2007. It has become a hub for hobbyist ...