World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Read What are asteroids?Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the Sun just like planets do. In fact, sometimes asteroids are ...

The meteor’s impact triggered a cascade of effects. It kicked up so much dust that the sky darkened. As the sun dimmed, ...

How frequently does a traveler from another star system sweep through our galactic neighborhood, and astronomers rush to the telescope? Not until recently was the answer: hardly ever. In fewer than ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, which led to the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs ...

Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

The bigger the rock, the less often they impact Earth. For example, a 140-metre asteroid impacts Earth roughly once every 1,000 years and one that is about one kilometre in size impacts Earth roughly ...

This wasn't the first time these images had gone viral. In late 2023, the exact same pictures circulated online with a different caption, suggesting they depicted a "sunburn competition" in Florida.

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...

Sixty six million years ago, just off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in what is now the North East coast of modern Mexico, and a herd of spectacular creatures is on the move. About thirty ...

A version of this article appears in print on June 11, 2025, Section A, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Misleading Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests.