Scientists are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Initial tracking was ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

In 2021, NASA gave the all-clear to another potentially worrisome asteroid, Apophis, after new telescope observations ruled out any chance of it hitting Earth in 2068. It’s way too soon to fret over ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

ESOChile's pristine, dark desert skies are world-renowned for astronomy.But now the community says they are at risk of being ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and ...

NASA and other world-leading space agencies are putting the most powerful eyes in the night sky on asteroid 2024 YR4, a newly ...