An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. The asteroid, named ...

Skywatchers are excited about a rare event this week as Comet G3 ATLAS (C/2024), the brightest comet in nearly 20 years, ...

The fact that Earth is at perihelion has little to do with the seasons. The difference in solar radiation received by our ...

The idea of Earth “falling” might sound a bit puzzling at first, but it’s a super interesting concept that shakes up how we ...

In the coming days, we can observe one of the most spectacular astronomical events. Asteroid 887 Alinda, with a diameter of ...

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

More objects are being launched into space than ever, and most are headed for low Earth orbit. This region of space has ...