For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is ...

The worst sci-fi movie of all time, according to science, is Roland Emmerich's 'Moonfall'. Neil Degrasse Tyson now thinks it has surpassed 'Armageddon'.

The skies over Iowa have been quite the place to see some stellar sites as of late. The Lights of the North have visited Iowa ...

A cult Hollywood blockbuster that tells the story of the threat of the Earth's collision with a giant asteroid. Director ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

Last month, the Earth's atmosphere was bombarded by a small, boulder-sized asteroid just hours after it had first been detected, having evaded early impact monitoring systems. The object ...

When the 'God of Chaos' asteroid flies by our planet in five years, Earth's gravity could cause it to experience 'astroquakes,' scientists have predicted. Their research suggests that when the ...

The Popular Astronomy Club meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Butterworth Center in Moline. All are ...

Just check out the latest images taken by the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft. As it flew towards an asteroid, the probe captured photos of Earth and the Moon, floating in the darkness of ...

Nov. 11, 2024 — Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves ...

Hera's journey to asteroid Dimorphos. To get to asteroid Dimorphos, Hera performed its first maneuver with two bursts from ...