According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

Spread the loveThe cosmos is buzzing with excitement as a newly discovered asteroid, designated as 2026 EG1, is set to make a close flyby of Earth tonight, just days after its discovery. First ...

Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain forever unknown.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Astronomers have recently identified a mysterious “glowing object” in Earth’s orbit. This intriguing discovery has stirred the scientific community and space enthusiasts, prompting speculation about ...

The biggest objects in the universe are clusters of galaxies, such as the supercluster we live in right now - and including Abell 370, which was captured in a sprawling glittery space-scape by the ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

Humanity’s relationship with the moon has always been simple. One planet, one moon — a cosmic partnership as reliable as sunrise. But that clarity just got murkier. Astronomers have confirmed ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...