Following the Quadrantids meteor shower, another incredible sky event is about to take place: comet Atlas C/2024 G3 will soon ...

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

Follow-up observations from the Gemini-North telescope on Hawaii Island and the Very Large Telescope in Chile returned ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...

It got within 140 million km on 14 January, but as it heads off again into the void of space, the southern hemisphere is best placed to see it. Australian National University astrophysicist Dr Brad ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...

Asteroid 2024 PT5 was discovered by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Scientists believe that the ...

The sun’s light exerts a tiny force called “solar radiation pressure” on objects in space. Lightweight human-made debris, ...