Kittelman has been an avid science educator throughout his career. He says his motivation is simple. Good science education lays the foundation for a new generation of scientists. “Science is about ...

A small asteroid, approximately 70 cm in diameter, has been detected on a collision course with Earth, expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Siberia today. The impact is anticipated ...

A “city killer” asteroid experts feared was on a crash course with Earth is now expected to miss the planet — but it still has a chance of smashing into the moon. Asteroid 2024 YR4, first ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft stranded in orbit for more than half a century is now on a collision course with Earth. Kosmos 482—originally launched on March 31, 1972, as part of the Soviet Union's ...

The current target is the near-Earth object 2015 XF261, a 30-metre-long asteroid tens of millions of kilometres away from Earth. Such small asteroids are an important area of study.

New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: Two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe ...