The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...

An American high school student has stunned the scientific world by developing an algorithm to map 1.5 million previously unknown space objects using overlooked NASA data, revolutionising modern ...

The space rock is hurtling toward the Earth at a zippy 8,478 miles per hour miles per hour, according to the space agency.

“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...

What began as a summer learning project has turned into a scientific discovery. An American high school student has ...