A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...
But 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary rock – it’s a comet from beyond the solar system which greeted the Earth on December 19. It’s ...
New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...
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One meteorite may hold the answers space agencies have been chasing, answers that could unlock mining in deep space.
Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...
As the American Meteor Society notes, Quadrantids has a short but active peak, lasting around 6 hours. The peak is expected ...
From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...
When the interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS passed Earth on Dec. 19, 2025, astronomers around the world trained their ...
A bus-sized asteroid successfully completed a routine flyby of Earth on December 22, 2025, at a safe distance. NASA confirmed the event, emphasizing that the object was tracked well in advance and ...
Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.
NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that is speeding towards the Earth at more than 22,600 miles per hour, according to ...