Comet C/2024 E1 has been photographed as it nears Earth - but even at its closest, it will still be 150 million kilometres ...

According to Michele Bannister, there are a myriad of these little worlds in our Solar System as of now. We simply cannot see them yet because we are not seeing faintly. The difference between that ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope observed a dramatic outburst from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after its October 2025 solar flyby.

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

The night lit up with blue and green flames on Feb. 10 as a fireball meteor streaked across the skies in Ohio. See the videos from social media.

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

The latest asteroid to pass by the Earth will be back in a few years — it's not coming for us, but it may be on a collision course with the moon.

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples suggests life's building blocks formed in frozen outer Solar System, not warm asteroid interiors.

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

The newly discovered sungrazing comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) will undergo an extremely close slingshot around our star in early ...