Killer asteroids: how safe are we, really?

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently blazing towards the ...

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

Long ignored by scientists, cosmic dust is becoming an increasingly important field of study

Flicking through the pages of BBC Sky at Night Magazine each month, you’d be forgiven for thinking astronomers have black holes pinned down. Whether it’s the dramatic imaging of black hole shadows by

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a mysterious interstellar interloper spotted passing through our Solar System. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Las