The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

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

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, photo of the ...

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 December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What's ...

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth keeps shifting, according to scientists. The object — which is large ...

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

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

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

However, this hypothesis evolved in the 1990s following analysis of Earth's water composition and the discovery of the ...