For a brief moment, Earth has been graced by a second moon—asteroid 2024 PT5—a celestial visitor that won’t be staying long.

NASA plans to probe a unique asteroid 2.2 billion miles away in order to learn more about the cores of planets, but it could ...

Astronomers at the Complutense University of Madrid first spotted this intriguing event using a powerful telescope in ...

This “farthest away” point is known as the planet’s greatest elongation. Since Mercury is in the evening sky, it is east of ...

Once feared to pose a threat to Earth, asteroid Apophis is now a subject of immense scientific interest. Discovered in 2004, the 450-meter-wide asteroid will pass remarkably close to Earth on ...

In 1985, the observatory discovered the binary asteroid 4337 Arecibo in the outer regions of the Main Asteroid Belt. In 1992, Arecibo discovered the first exoplanets, two rocky bodies roughly four ...

While some Samsung flagships have already received November’s security update, the Galaxy maker has just issued details of what’s in the fix—and perhaps more critically, what’s not.

The farthest background galaxy is so distant that it must have developed in an early phase of the universe, which most scientists think is around 13.7 billion years old. Researchers used ...

Around 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs were killed by an enormous asteroid that hit what is today Chicxulub, Mexico. But a second asteroid struck during that same era at the Nadir crater off ...

The company is in a race against time to become the first to mine an asteroid for platinum and sell it on Earth for a whole lot of money, cashing in on the rapid commercialization of space.

Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, asteroids come in many shapes and sizes. Most are small, only 10 metres across, but the largest are hundreds of kilometres across ...

The news Galaxy users have been waiting for. Samsung users are currently falling ever further behind, as Pixel and other phone users install Android 15 with its major security and privacy upgrades ...