NASA has confirmed that a 65-foot asteroid, named 2025 MN88, will skim past Earth today at a speed of 17,518 mph and a ...

NASA confirms that the 65-foot asteroid, 2025 MN88, will make its closest approach to Earth today, traveling at a high speed of 17,518 miles per hour.

NASA has released the first-ever high-resolution image of the main-belt asteroid Donaldjohanson, highlighting its unique peanut shape.

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Measuring approximately 120 feet in width, the asteroid will fly by at a velocity of 31,204 km/h, maintaining a safe distance ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...

The Rubin Observatory, which can take images with a field of view of the sky that are the equivalent of 40 moons, discovered ...

The directive, in a memo issued Tuesday, came after two court rulings that questioned the Trump administration’s swift cuts to funding.

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

Named after Dr. Vera C. Rubin, the astronomer who discovered conclusive evidence for the existence of dark matter, this ...

Breathtaking stellar nurseries, a sprawling stretch of cosmos teeming with millions of galaxies, and thousands of newly ...