If you're a newbie astronomer, perhaps consider a pair of the best binoculars for stargazing to dip your toe in before investing in one of the best telescopes. Alternatively, if you’re into ...

Discovered by Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey, the Big Ben-sized asteroid 2024 YR4 is now seen as a negligible threat, with recent data significantly reducing its impact probability to just 0.004% ...

Richard Binzel, astronomer and professor of planetary sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the case of the 130-to-300-foot-wide asteroid named 2024 YR4 can serve as a ...

Astronomers detected a 40-to-80-meter asteroid, dubbed a “city killer,” with the potential to collide with Earth in 2032, but Reynier Squillace is not worried. Squillace is a second-year graduate ...

February is a great time to get into stargazing or upgrade to one of the best telescopes if you're already a keen astronomer. There's no shortage of breathtaking sights in the night sky ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Cold, dark and distant, it was named after the Roman god of the underworld.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

"We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that would lie between the orbits of Venus and Earth if it were in our solar system," says astronomer Sean ...

Residents of Tudun Murtala Tagarji community in Kano State woke up to a distressing discovery of a newborn baby abandoned in a carton near the Kaura drainage. According to Commander Sulaiman Rabiu ...

The story then continues with figures such as Angelo Secchi, the 19th century Italian Jesuit and astronomer - who Consolmagno says "might be the greatest scientist most people have never heard of" - ...

Monash University astronomer Associate Professor Dr Michael Brown said the asteroid is keeping him “interested” but “not overly concerned”. The impact could cause an eight-megaton ...

For those unable to witness this lunar event, the next full moon—the Worm Moon—is set to appear on Friday, March 14. Whether you’re an avid astronomer or simply appreciate the beauty of the night sky, ...