Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now ...

It’s now in the constellation Capricorn and around 91 million miles (146 million kilometers) from Earth, according to TheSkyLive.com. “The comet just transitioned into the evening sky on ...

Will Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS be visible again soon? No, this comet is on a trajectory that will not bring it back to Earth's vicinity for another 160,000 years, making it a rare and special event. (You ...

The comet at the time was a magnitude 19 object about 4.38 AU (655 million km) from Earth. Further observations indicated it had a diffuse coma about 4.5 arcseconds across and a straight tail.

A recently discovered comet is making a bright debut on Earth this month, and with some effort, skygazers might be able to see Comet ATLAS. Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS was discovered in April 2024 using ...