Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

Earth should have lost its water long before life ever had a chance to appear. Bathed in a young Sun’s fierce radiation and ...

Researchers are keeping an eye on the building-sized asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon seven years from now.

The Geminids tend to be the strongest meteor shower of the year. It is also the one major shower that provides good activity ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

Every December, Earth plows through a dusty lane of debris in space, and the night becomes illuminated by streaks of meteors.

3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...

Although the Ursids are active from Dec. 13 through Dec. 26, the peak night coincides with the winter solstice, which occurs at 10:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 21. Though the two events are totally unrelated, ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, collecting rare data as the ancient object made ...

Scientists atop Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaiʻi and across the Hawaiian chain are turning their telescopes skyward Friday ...

Sources from Associated Press say the last major meteor shower of the year, known as the Ursids, peaks soon, bringing glowing ...