The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope discovered the interstellar comet 3I⧸ATLAS - NASA explains. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

By early December, 3I/ATLAS will move away from the Sun’s vicinity, and its glare, and will be visible again in the Northern ...

A recently identified asteroid is capturing astronomers' attention with its frantic race around the Sun. Discovered under ...

Siddharth Patel, a 12-year-old who lives in London, Ontario (west of Toronto), spotted two possible asteroids in September as ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

No, NASA didn’t confirm a second moon, but scientists did discover something else that’s been traveling with Earth for ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

Hidden by the Sun’s glare, a new space object has been found lurking in our Solar System, and it's one of the fastest-moving ...

For years, scientists thought dinosaurs were already declining before an asteroid wiped them out 66 million years ago. But ...

If such ‘twilight’ asteroids approach Earth, "they could pose serious impact hazards," warned the astronomer behind the ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.

Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...