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

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

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

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

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 ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — The spacecraft for China’s Tianwen-2 combined near-Earth asteroid sample return and comet rendezvous mission has arrived at Xichang spaceport for launch preparations.

Inner dark comets are smaller – typically 1,000 feet in size – and on circular orbits close to the Earth. It’s still not clear exactly what these dark comets are. They may not even be traditional ...

And if the comet's remains survive, it's expected to be visible from Earth again in about 600,000 ... As the comet gets close to the sun, it gets warmed up and its icy material transforms from ...