Six planets will appear close together after sunset in a rare planetary parade. Here is how and when to see this beautiful ...

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

Six planets are set to align on Saturday, creating a planetary parade that will be visible to sky-gazers across the globe.

Rubin Observatory detected 800,000 cosmic changes in one night, launching its 10-year mission to create a real-time movie of the universe.

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

This week the telescope revealed its first real-time sky alerts, issuing 800,000 alerts for transient events in just one night, February 24, 2026. Some of these were variable stars – which go through ...

When the United States Space Force was first created, one of its early recruiting ads showed uniformed service members ...

Buzzwords are trendy and a recent one in astronomy is ”planetary parade." It’s a fun little phrase, but what’s really behind it? First off, I’m a big fan of anything, even trendy words that are going ...

This week, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issued its first real-time sky alerts, inaugurating a monitoring system set to transform how we study the universe.

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

When we eventually mine asteroids, humans and robots will not leave unprotected microbes on the surface. Instead, machines ...

Asteroids, exploding stars, and feasting black holes swarm in the first-ever batch of nightly alerts from the Vera C. Rubin ...