At this point in history, astronomers and engineers who grew up watching "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon," two movies about the ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

The asteroid, known as 2022 RD2, belongs to a rare class of space rocks called Arjunas. These objects travel around the sun ...

Astronomers are running out of time to decide whether to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from hitting the moon in 2032. A small observing window with the James Webb Space Telescope will open in February, ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

A newly refined set of orbital calculations suggests that asteroid 2024 YR4 — once briefly considered a threat to Earth — could come unusually close to the Moon in late 2032. According to WPtech’s ...

A faculty member from Mississippi State University has discovered a new asteroid, a first for the Magnolia State.

The discovery was confirmed by the Minor Planet Center, the world’s official authority for verifying new asteroid findings ...

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

An asteroid could wipe out humanity, but it's unlikely. Near-misses are more common than impacts, though planetary defence is ...

Astronomers have been observing the comet, only the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, since its discovery on July 1 Astronomers have been observing the comet, only the ...