The Vera C. Rubin Observatory released its first cosmic images on 23 June 2025, launching a 10-year sky survey with the world ...

Astronomers unveiled the first images of distant galaxies from an advanced telescope, opening a new era in space discovery.

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday (June 23) — and included a special ...

The arrival of those photons—many from ancient stars and galaxies and which had been travelling across the universe for ...

KOCHI: Space and its mysteries have fascinated people for ages. However, unlike many, this 13-year-old decided to work towards unravelling some of them. And to ...

A Tekapo couple who have spent the past 50 years helping to track asteroids that could pose a threat to Earth have been ...

NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky bodies could be on a collision course with Earth.

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are constantly orbiting close to our planet. Every night, astronomers track NEOs ...

NASA's planetary defense initiatives, particularly the NEO Surveyor mission designed to detect hazardous asteroids, face potential setbacks due to proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration ...

But asteroids are often unpredictable, and on every mission to visit one, there have been surprises. Asteroid Eros, which the NEAR spacecraft orbited and landed on in 2001, was covered in an ...

NASA has been tracking a house-sized asteroid in the vicinity of Earth that is hurtling through space at a zippy 42,300 miles per hour. Known as "2025 HM4," the asteroid's path brought it within a ...

Scientists are also tracking a 73-foot, airplane-sized asteroid known as "2025 HQ4," currently located 1,150,000 miles away and speeding along at 29,885 miles per hour. A stock image of an ...