The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

A colossal impact billions of years ago carved out the canyons that rival the most breathtaking features here on Earth in a ...

Discovered on March 2, 2022, by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility's wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the comet will make its ...

sun-watching SOHO Observatory ... the remainder of its apparition.” This comet is best seen from the Southern Hemisphere, where it’s shining at +1.8 magnitude, high enough above the horizon ...

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

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile ... latest ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the asteroid was first spotted on December 27, 2024, by the El Sauce Observatory in Chile ... latest calculations from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, there is a 1.6 percent chance ...

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

China has begun recruiting for a planetary defense force after risk assessments determined that an asteroid could conceivably ...