Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe.

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

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

A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday ...

Space enthusiasts will soon get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a stunning comet as it zooms past Earth later this month ... comet started making its way toward the inner solar system.

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

At its closest, the comet was over three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than the Earth, but is now on its way back out of the solar system towards the ...

He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series ... could shine bright as Venus as it falls toward the sun: What to expect from Comet ATLAS (C/2024) G3 ...