Astronomers are keeping a close watch on a newly discovered near‐Earth asteroid that, while highly unlikely to hit Earth, remains under intense international scrutiny.

Last week, the European Space Agency (ESA) gave the asteroid a 1.3 per cent chance of hitting the Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.

A laboratory prototype of a plasma electric rocket engine based on a magnetic plasma accelerator has been produced by Rosatom ...

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

A blue dwarf galaxy pitched through the bullseye's galactic neighborhood 50 million years ago, leaving behind nine glittering ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

Our strengths in space and quantum research were the main focus of a visit to Durham University by the German Ambassador to ...

Nuclear missiles, the DART mission and space lasers have been floated as potential solutions to the YR4 asteroid.

The government wants access not just to the data of iCloud users in the UK, but from around the world, according to a report.

The powerful Webb with its incredible sensitivity observed dust grains the size of bacteria, which will eventually coalesce ...

NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope has captured grains the size of a single bacterium that'll likely transform into planets.

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