In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.

The detailed images of these 42 objects are a leap forward in exploring asteroids, made possible thanks to ground-based telescopes, and contribute to answering the ultimate question of life, the ...

An AI deepfake was final straw for a Washington state trooper. He's suing Tatiana Schlossberg, John F Kennedy's granddaughter ...

A team of astronomers have used the Hubble space telescope to capture with direct imaging asteroids smashing into each other ...

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A surprising discovery has been unveiled by astronomers as they have categorized the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid.The recent announcement marks a significant milestone in the detection of ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

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While surveying distant worlds beyond our solar system, researchers unexpectedly obtained the first direct images showing ...

One million alien visitors from another star system could already be lurking in the solar system. We aren't talking about "little green men" here, however — more "little (and not so little) gray rocks ...

One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car’s owner reported that the ...