In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

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

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

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

NASA has significantly lowered the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Earth in 2032 through recent calculations. The moon ...

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and cometary impacts ...

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 ...