Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven ...

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

Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...

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

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.

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 ...

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

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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Doug Simons is the director of the 3.6-meter Canada France Hawaii Telescope and former director of the Gemini Observatory, which has twin eight-meter telescopes on Mauna Kea and in Chile.