While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

NASA and ESA monitor asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Learn about Near-Earth Objects ...

The comet was last seen in Earth's skies in 1986, Halley’s orbit period is on average, 76 Earth years. This corresponds to an ...

Amelia Bryan discusses what cosmological events to look forward to in 2025: planetary parades, eclipses and meteor showers.

Word is sure getting around about the "parade of planets" visible in our evening sky! Many of the news outlets and social ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

Planetary alignment is an astronomical term used to describe when planets gather closely on one side of the Sun at the same ...

Although planets are technically always ‘aligned’ because they orbit the solar system on the same plane (the ecliptic), it’s rare to see four or five planets at once – and even more rare for them to ...

with its closest point to Earth in its orbit, in what’s known as perigee ... of the year and you can see up to 120 meteors per hour in clear skies. It is the only known meteor shower originating from ...

What is a meteor shower? What's a meteorite? Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through dusty debris trails left by comets and other space objects as they orbit the sun. The debris – space rocks ...