Ian Sample hears from Richard Binzel, a professor of planetary sciences at MIT and inventor of the Torino scale, which is used to categorise the threat posed by objects such as asteroids and comets ...
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A bizarre cosmic explosion has puzzled astronomers.
ESA's Euclid telescope captured an amazing image of an Einstein ring located in galaxy NGC 6505 approximately 590 million light-years from Earth. This phenomenon occurs when light from a distant galaxy bends to form a ring that appears aligned with a ...
Astronomers will use the Webb telescope to closely monitor the size and trajectory of an asteroid that has a slim chance of striking Earth in 2032.
There are only four super star clusters in all the Local Group: rarities today. Here's what the youngest, the just-discovered N79, shows ...
Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, the pair sets a new record for the ...
A blast of radio waves from the outskirts of an ancient galaxy challenges theories about what creates such bursts.
Astronomers have found an incredibly rare complete 'Einstein ring' - predicted by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.
Around a galaxy just 590 million light-years away, astronomers have discovered a stunning example of one of the rarest phenomena in our skies: a perfect ring of light.
Dazzling image shows galaxy more than 4bn light years away, whose starlight has been bent due to gravity ...