An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. ... The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, astronomers have warned.

HelioLinc3D, which was developed for the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, ... An Unusual Asteroid: China’s robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, ...

Astronomers say a massive green energy project in Chile could compromise one of Earth's best chances to detect ... (VLT). Earlier this year, the VLT was used to track asteroid 2024 YR4, ...

Bullseye! How DART hit an asteroid 7 million miles away 05:09. An algorithm designed to discover near-Earth asteroids has identified its first "potentially hazardous asteroid," researchers from ...