There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

The comet will zip past Mars’s orbit and reach its closest point to the Sun on 29 October 2025, at 1.35 astronomical units.

Distant was eventually retitled Long Distance and given a small release in Vietnam in 2024. Then it hit Hulu last week in the ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away." ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

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

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic time to 1 billion years after the Big Bang.

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.