While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

the "Great Comet of 2025" due to its daytime visibility and spectacular nighttime sightings. In these gorgeous photos from the Paranal Observatory, it's not hard to see why. Photographer Yuri ...

"Impact probability is still very low, and the most likely outcome will be a close approaching rock that misses us." ...

These include the "rubber ducky" Comet ... photos suggests. For years, researchers have puzzled over the origins of Phobos and its twin, Deimos. Some have theorized that the moons are former ...

The comet is traveling through our solar system in a retrograde orbit around the sun, meaning it moves in the opposite direction to most major objects, like planets and asteroids. Comet ...

"Space is three dimensional—whilst there are a huge number of comets and asteroids out there, most of them move on orbits that don't perfectly intersect with that of the Earth—even if they do ...

Astronomers Find the Smallest Asteroids Ever Detected in the Main Belt Dec. 9, 2024 — Astronomers have found a way to spot the smallest, 'decameter,' asteroids within the main asteroid belt.

Sometimes it finds comets and artificial satellites. To date, it has found 283 near-Earth asteroids, 31 potentially hazardous asteroids, 16 comets and 3,082 supernovas.

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. The decades-long debate over the origin of water on planet earth just ...