Predicting the precise path of a new asteroid or comet is a complex affair; the more observations you have, the better you ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth — but closer to the red planet than ours at a safe 150 million miles ...

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they were likely the source of our planet's water, ultimately making up ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth keeps shifting, according to scientists. The object — which is large enough to destroy an entire city — has a 0.28% chance of colliding ...

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it is monitoring an unidentified object alongside Russia identified only as A11pl3Z as ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

The odds that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 2032 recently spiked from a little more than 1% to 2.3% as more observations are made. ... comets and other small bodies in the solar system.

An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. ... Near-Earth Objects are asteroids or comets nudged into our neighborhood of space by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets.

Small fragments of asteroids and comets less than 3 feet in size hit Earth’s atmosphere almost daily, according to NASA. Slightly bigger asteroids, about a few meters, pass between the Earth and ...