NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...

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

Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

Comet G3 is on its first voyage into the inner solar system, meaning it’s packed with volatile materials that have never been ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further ...

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

The proximity and the approach make Alpha Centauri a great case study for the spread of interstellar objects. That is why ...

To map out the best nights for skywatching, we turned to three seasoned stargazers to tell us about the best nights of the ...

NASA has awarded SpaceX a $100 million fixed-price contract for the launch of the agency’s Near-Earth Object Surveyor, an ...

Chinese spaceflight activities have been on pause in recent weeks due to the annual Spring Festival and New Lunar Year ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032.

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...