An asteroid skimming just 200 miles above the planet sounds like science fiction, yet recent flybys have come uncomfortably close to that mark. Several small space rocks have threaded the gap between ...

Slow-moving objects in the sky have usually been put there by people. For example, in 2017 I got queries about what proved to be a giant Nasa balloon, launched from Wānaka, lit up by the setting sun ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II, astronauts will be able to take modern smartphones to space.

With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...