"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called the Oort Cloud mimic the spiral structure of the Milky Way.

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further ...

Comet G3 is on its first voyage into the inner solar system, meaning it’s packed with volatile materials that have never been ...

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

In reality, even as the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was moving away, ground-based telescopes were able to gather enough ...

A ‘city-destroying’ asteroid is currently on a path towards Earth and could hit as soon as 2032. Now experts have modelled ...

The proximity and the approach make Alpha Centauri a great case study for the spread of interstellar objects. That is why ...

The panic that ensued in 1910 following scientists' bizarre and baseless theories on Halley’s Comet is a testament to just ...

The risk that an increasingly ominous asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 will crash into Earth in seven years now exceeds the the ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe for asteroid exploration has arrived at the launch site of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in ...