A house-size asteroid is heading toward Earth tonight: Here’s what you need to know

The asteroid is on the European Space Agency’s Risk List, but poses no threat to Earth or the moon during the close approach.

Light pollution has brightened Earth by 16% since 2014, satellites find

Artificial lights at night brightened up planet Earth by 16% from 2014 to 2022, a new study using satellite images has found.

Watch Comet MAPS get destroyed by cataclysmic fragmentation near the sun

A dramatic breakup near the sun erased hopes of a bright comet lighting up the evening sky this week.

The powerful new Rubin Observatory just found 11,000 new asteroids and measured ‘tens of thousands more’

This offers us a glimpse of the discovery surge scientists expect to occur once full operations begin.

Saturn’s magnetic field is curiously warped, and one of its moons may be to blame

“A better understanding of Saturn’s environment is especially urgent now as plans for our return to Saturn and its moon Enceladus start to be developed.”

Powerful X-class solar flare triggers radio blackout ahead of Artemis 2 launch (video)

An X1.4 solar flare triggered radio blackouts and launched a fast CME as NASA prepares for its Artemis 2 moon mission.

Are Saturn’s rings made of a lost, shattered moon? New evidence arises for the case

New simulations suggest Saturn’s rings formed from a shattered moon called Chrysalis, offering clues to the planet’s tilt and surprisingly young rings.

Hitting the brakes: Hubble Space Telescope watches doomed comet reverse its spin

The unprecedented observations of comet 41P/Tuttle–Giacobini–Kresák show its rotation slowing, reversing and then speeding up, and jet-like outbursts of gas might be providing the push.

Sun storms are powered by a magnetic engine 16 Earths deep, study finds

The powerful magnetic field belonging to the sun is generated far beneath the visible surface.