The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.
A bus-size asteroid is racing through space on a trajectory that will bring it close to Earth, and NASA is watching it with ...
NASA’s latest alert about a near‑Earth asteroid has revived a familiar mix of anxiety and curiosity about what would happen ...
The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
Scientists warn that certain asteroids could become more dangerous upon entering Earth, potentially complicating asteroid ...
This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...
Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system that likely contain or previously contained ice and could have been one route for ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...