New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

A new dawn in Queensland with the election last weekend of the Liberal National Party’s David Crisafulli as premier following ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) will not outshine Venus this Halloween, after all. NASA has confirmed that the feisty comet had met ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s CCOR captured solar CME images, while the LASCO telescope observed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1) is due to pass closest to the sun on October 28, and may be visible to the naked eye in the days ...

Brown University astronomers captured stunning images of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and vibrant auroras across the skies ...

As a result, he added, the current evidence for a cosmic impact is based heavily on the measurements taken from the more ...