Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

First discovered on May 24, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) reached its perihelion on October 8, 2025. It will be closest to Earth on November 25, 2025, ...

Daichi Fujii has logged about 60 impacts on the Moon since 2011, giving astronomers fresh data on asteroid strike rates.

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

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For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...

Unusually bright \"Halloween fireballs\" are linked to the Taurid Resonant Swarm, a debris cluster potentially containing ...

The Moon was struck by two asteroids last week, and the activity was caught on camera by a Japanese astronomer. The impact ...

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly ...