Astronomers are constantly tracking “potentially hazardous” objects in space, using advanced telescopes capable of detecting ...

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 ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored ideas so extreme they border on science fiction—including using asteroids as ...

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

My friend Larry Lebofsky has been studying asteroids since we first met as students, more than 50 years ago. Now approaching 80 years old, he still spends a ...

An American high school student has stunned the scientific world by developing an algorithm to map 1.5 million previously ...

He won over $250,000 for the discovery of 1.5 million unidentified objects.

An up-closed video of the Moon at daytime is going viral on social media, leaving the internet- Selenophiles, specifically- ...

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

"If our hypothesized dark charge is true, then we believe there could be a significant population of primordial black holes, ...

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