This is not a drill. There is a chance - albeit a small one - that an asteroid could hit planet Earth within the next decade.

Alas, the miracle could not last. The solar storms were heating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing it to inflate and increase ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern ...

"Comet G3 ATLAS seems unwilling to leave our sky," Daniele notes. (Daniele Gasparri/Universe Today) The comet was on a 160,000 year orbit inbound. Estimates put it on a 600,000-year outbound orbit.

the telescope is designed to discover 90% of asteroids and comets that are 460 feet in size or larger and come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.

We’ll also get a chance to see a handful of comets, like C/2022 E2 (ATLAS) in the constellation Cassiopeia and Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, which orbits between Jupiter and Neptune.