Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

An astronomical event is predicted for August 2025 when the Perseid meteor shower and the conjunction of Jupiter with Venus ...

A newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, has scientists buzzing with its potential to collide with the Moon and create a ...

Asteroid 2003 EH1 takes about 5.52 years to orbit the Sun and could be a “dead comet” or “rock comet,” a rare celestial body that exhibits characteristics of both an asteroid and a comet.

You can catch meteor showers and a special lunar display early this week, and keep an eye out for the popular Perseids ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

The Southern Delta Aquarids and Alpha Capricornids are not the best showers of the summer, but they reach their peak on the ...

Summer meteor shower season is well underway now that three seperate showers are lighting up the night sky – including the ...

What is a meteor? Meteors are born from comet particles and asteroid debris. When this glorious detritus travels around the sun, it leaves a trail behind. When Earth passes through these trails, the ...

This image provided by NASA shows Comet Atlas, nicknamed the “Halloween comet”, approaching its closest to the sun, October 2024, as seen in this real-time image from NASA’s orbiting Solar ...

Most meteor showers originate from the debris of comets, but a few — including the Geminids — result from the debris of asteroids. The Geminids come from the sun-orbiting asteroid 3200 Phaethon.

Every year, Earth passes through the comet's debris trail, resulting in the Perseid meteor shower when the broken bits of ... Swift-Tuttle is absolutely gargantuan – twice the size of the asteroid ...