The biggest planet in the Solar System has gone rogue. And now it’s heading straight toward Earth. You have 30 days till this ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Rubin Observatory, which is set to kick off full operations later this spring, an international team of astronomers has ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Learn how the world’s “largest digital camera” has detected approximately 2,000 new asteroids, a collection that includes ...

The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...

A record-breaking asteroid has been discovered by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory just seven days after it began its observations. Based on this performance result, scientists and astronomers can expect ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Among the first finds from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, the discovery hints at a population of exceptionally strong ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...