Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to Earth at 26.4 million miles (42.5 million km) away. Credit: Gianluca Masi / ...

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Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a ...

Fears have grown about the asteroid since it was first spotted and expert astronomers admitted it has a chance of hitting Earth.

A professor of planetary astronomy at the University of Edinburgh has spoken on Asteroid 2024 YR4 - a massive space object that is said to 'plummeting' towards Earth.

People in the northern hemisphere will be able to see Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars during the planetary parade. The next full moon will happen on Feb. 12. Known as the ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024. Full Story: <a href=" Credit: NASA's ...

NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.