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

Not much is known about 2024 YR4, but the asteroid is estimated to be 131 to 295 feet (40 to 90 meters) wide, a “size range comparable to that of a large building,” said Dr. Paul Chodas, manager for ...

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

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

A newly discovered asteroid being tracked by the global science community has a nearly 98% chance of zooming by Earth without ...

So, is a comet actually going to hit Earth in 2032? If so, what will happen to humanity? At the time of publication, there is a 2.3 percent chance of an asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — hitting ...

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 ...

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

However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place. One leading idea is that space rocks such as comets and asteroids delivered water to the Earth through ...