The asteroids are as large as around 75 and 91 feet in diameter, according to the Center for Near Earth Object Studies.

Apophis will make a rare close flyby of Earth in 2029 as scientists study its effects and analyse new findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

NASA is closely tracking two asteroids, 2025 VW and 2025 VC2 that are around 1-2 million miles away from the planet.

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has enough mass to swallow millions of tons of debris. So naturally, someone ...

Ceres is the largest 'asteroid' in our solar system, big enough that it's actually classified as a dwarf planet, like Pluto.

The UAE’s 25-year journey in space has helped shape the country’s growing scientific capability, which bodes well for the next era of exploration ...

Planetary science is in limbo during the government shutdown — things like analyzing asteroids, studying the magnetosphere of Jupiter, or better understanding Mars so that humans might one day visit.

Answer: It’s a comet that comes from another stellar system, from another star. It’s the third one we’ve ever discovered. The first, 1I/ʻOumuamua, resembled an asteroid more than a comet, but the ...

Astronomers around the world have been fascinated by a particular comet for weeks. It is called 3i/ATLAS, and it is the third ...

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will continue to track 3I/ATLAS as it moves toward Jupiter by March 2026. Scientists ...

The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth's solar system.