Chinese defence agency recruits space researchers following discovery of large asteroid with a 2.2 per cent chance of striking Earth in 2032.

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I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Astronomers have found an incredibly rare complete 'Einstein ring' - predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.

The world's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' can reach a peak performance of 2.746 exaFLOPS, making it the planet's third ...

The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With ...

Neutrinos, often called 'ghost particles', are subatomic particles that travel through space but barely interact with ...

A full “snow” moon will peak over Kentucky soon, and stargazers can also see Venus shine especially bright. February’s full moon is called the snow moon because the month can be the snowiest of the ...

So long as the weather cooperates, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and the moon will be visible Sunday evening during an open ...

NASA’s Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) has calculated a 2.3% chance—roughly a 1-in-43 probability—that asteroid ...

The rare astronomical event will see Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn appear at the same time, ...