Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...

WASHINGTON: New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of ...

Recent observations have significantly lowered the impact risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 with Earth. Initially estimated with a 3% chance, new data from the European Southern Observatory shows the ...

The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or call the information line (804-752-3210) for dates and times.

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further ...

It might be surprising, but two of the most important discoveries in radio astronomy were made by accident. Maybe just as ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

A protester runs past riot police outside Parliament in Athens during a rally marking two years since the rail disaster, ...

At a visit to Northfleet School for Girls, which has benefitted from green investment to the tune of thousands of pounds, the ...