Astronomers have discovered a small object in space that will pass by Earth on 1 December 2020 by the small margin of just 50,000 km. Not...
Well, yikes: On Friday (13 November 2020), a small asteroid passed so close to Earth it was barely above our atmosphere: It came about 400 kilometers...
This year has been an extremely active year for news of asteroids and comets with NASA's OSIRIS-REX touching down on asteroid Bennu last month, and a veritable flurry...
Exoplanets, those mysterious worlds in the Milky Way that orbit stars outside our solar system, come in all sizes and flavors, from those potentially made of diamonds...
Mars is being stalked—not just by humans who have their eye on for future missions and potential off-Earth colonies—but by another space rock.
Celebrity cameos in video games are nothing new. The upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 has been riding Keanu Reeves' appearance in the game for a long time, and it's not...
In 2014, a dramatic but doomed journey played out in space over 500 million kilometers from Earth. The Rosetta spacecraft had taken over a decade to...
If you’re looking for sprites or elves dancing in the forest after dark, you might be disappointed—but in a way, they do exist.
Astronomers have found a planet orbiting Barnard's Star: the fourth closest star to the Sun.
I can always tell when astronomer Neil Tyson tweets something about the sky. Within minutes, the emails and tweets to me start pouring in. In this...