A city-sized asteroid is approaching Earth this October, set to make its closest approach on October 27. Known as 1036 ...

Four large “potentially hazardous” asteroids – one the size of a skyscraper – are expected to pass by Earth on Thursday, ...

Four huge asteroids — and a fifth that's much smaller — are passing Earth on Thursday in their closest approaches to the ...

In the coming decades, at least two of the asteroids are expected to make an even closer flyby of Earth. 2024 TR6 will return ...

A look at new and exciting research at UCSB. Cosmic impacts. Asteroids and comets are well-known forms of hazardous threats to the Earth, leaving distinct craters and changes to t ...

Data from the OSIRIS-REx mission to Bennu place a ceiling on the strength of a hypothetical fifth force that could explain dark matter’s origins.

NASA has announced that an airplane-sized “city killer” asteroid will skim past Earth today — one of four “hazardous” space rocks to graze our orbit in less than 12 hours. Dubbed 2002 NV16, the cosmic ...

No need to freak out—only one asteroid is big enough to be considered hazardous, and it’s staying millions of miles away.

A distant interstellar cloud was found to contain an abundance of pyrene, a type of large carbon-containing molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). This suggest pyrene may have ...

On October 24, 2024, four sizable asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth in rapid succession, all within a ...

November marks the return of the popular “Liquid Sky” music-themed shows at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan ...