Travel 60 million light-years away into the constellation Virgo to catch a glimpse of interacting galaxies NGC 4568 and NGC ...

C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M ...

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

An artist’s rendering of Barnard’s Star, as seen from one of the newly discovered exoplanets orbiting it International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Despite being a scenario widely pondered by astronomers and Hollywood writers for decades, further observations have since determined YR4 will not impact the Earth in 2032 as originally predicted.

Participating Maunakea Observatories include the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, International Gemini Observatory, James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, Subaru Telescope ...

The space rock was first detected in December and was initially considered to have a chance of striking Earth in 2032.

In a first-ever near-infrared study of a recurrent nova beyond the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered exceptionally high temperatures and unexpected chemical signatures, pointing to an ...

Martin Still, NSF program director for the International Gemini Observatory, added: "Understanding the properties and origins of near-Earth asteroids is proving critical for understanding the risk ...

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