Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Stargazers across the Southern Hemisphere have been treated to views of a comet throughout the opening weeks of 2025. This past weekend, the cosmic spectacle became even more stunning as it ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on April 5 ... A timelapse taken by the NASA/ESA ...

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

Astronomers study Sun-grazing comets because they are essentially leftovers from the solar system's formation. Zhang said watching comets get destroyed by the Sun tells astronomers about what these ...