A "potentially hazardous" Apollo-class asteroid will be making its closest pass by Earth in more than 100 years this week.

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), it is a nonperiodic comet ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Any telescope on the planet can contribute to planetary defense: If an astronomer anywhere on Earth spies an object that looks like an asteroid (or comet), they can report its findings to the ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.