Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ...

By encouraging us to imagine future fixes instead of fixing the problem of climate breakdown now, the more speculative of ...

A clear, haze-free sky also helps. The remark about Copernicus is rather ironic, for he was the man who pushed hard for placing the sun and not the Earth at ... appears to go through phases ...

The ancient Greek gods, the immortal characters of Greek mythology, remain a fascination around the world as do their unusual ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land ...

A similar-sized asteroid entered Earth’s atmosphere in February 2013 when the early morning sky was set ablaze in Chelyabinsk, Russia. The space rock was estimated to be 17 metres in diameter ...

Sam Deen, a California-based amateur astronomer, calculates that there could be a 6% chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 could strike Earth, reports Sky and Telescope. That's just a one-in-17 chance.

Large telescopes around the world continue to track Asteroid 2024 YR4 before it fades out of view this spring, and the odds of the newly discovered asteroid hitting Earth just went up.

There’s a strange thing about sacred places. They are never just places. You don’t go there the way you visit a tourist spot.

There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within ... Dr Conversi tells Sky News. "In the worst-case scenario, the probability can go as high as about 20% ...