A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...
Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the ...
G3 (ATLAS), the 'Great Comet of 2025,' lit up the night sky in Chile, offering a rare and breathtaking sight for stargazers, ...
A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers) ...
The document builds on the academies' decadal survey, outlining recommended missions for NASA's next New Frontiers program.
Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...
NASA is tracking a bus-sized asteroid zipping past the Earth at nearly 16,000 miles per hour today. The asteroid, known as "2025 DM7," is estimated to be about 42 feet across and soared past our ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.