Astronomers have identified a skyscraper-sized asteroid, 2025 SC79, orbiting incredibly close to the Sun and at a near-record ...

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually.

The Earth often gets a few visitors in the solar system, but some stick around for a while. Here's what to know about the ...

Imagine you had to experience an apocalypse every day. Volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, asteroid showers. Every day would be a ...

Asteroid ‘Families’ Reveal Hidden Histories and Impact Risks across the Solar System ...

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

Observing 3I/ATLAS in this active phase will give some of the clearest insights yet into the mystery of interstellar comets.

What would happen if you obtained space-bending abilities and decided to test them out by placing Earth between the two ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. One infamous theory even posited that the interstellar interloper, estimated to be ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...