Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will sweep around the sun on Sept. 27 to make a brief foray into the morning sky. Will it be a bright ...

Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

The big attractions of our column today are a small eclipse of an especially big harvest moon Tuesday night and the arrival ...

New evidence supports the hypothesis that a fragmented comet triggered a dramatic climate change 12,800 years ago, with ...

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

The comet has since drawn attention due to its potential to become highly visible to the naked eye. On 9-10 October, Comet ...

Elon Musk has issued a warning for the public after a giant asteroid made a close approach to our planet. Reacting to ...

A European satellite which UK scientists helped build is set to make a fiery return to Earth after spending nearly quarter of ...

A growing body of research suggests that cosmic dust, originating from asteroid collisions and comet disintegration, may have ...

ATLAS—also known as comet A3 and C/2023 A3—could become visible to the naked eye in late September and mid-October. Here's ...

An asteroid impacted Earth earlier today, just a mere few hours after being discovered by astronomers. Thankfully, it didn't ...