The potentially hazardous asteroid 2024 YR4 caused consternation over the last few weeks as its odds of hitting Earth in 2032 dramatically rose. Now, those odds have plummeted to near-zero, as ...

Another night of observations revealed there is little to fear from the football field-sized Asteroid 2024 YR4.

Geomagnetic storms are capable of sparking beautiful displays of the Northern Lights across our night sky. However, there is a potential danger behind that beauty, especially now, with solar activity ...

A G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm is often the result of Earth plunging into a fast stream of the solar wind, or when a small, ...

Explore the astonishing findings from the Webb Telescope on the restless black hole Sagittarius A* at the Milky Way's center.

Astronomers are closely monitoring asteroid 2024 YR4, which once had the highest recorded impact probability for its size.

The human body was not built for spaceflight, with its microgravity conditions, exposure to high-energy radiation and other ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

NOAA forecasts a Kp index of three on a scale of nine for Tuesday night, meaning the aurora borealis will “become brighter” ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Scientists have found new evidence that the Earth’s inner core may be changing over time. A recent study by researchers at ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...