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The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Need an excuse to get outside and relax your gaze towards the skies? While celestial distractions are never hard to come by on clear evenings, meteor showers offer a different kind of temptation ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Mar. 17, 2025 — New modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit and spin ...

The fireballs are debris from comet Thatcher, which orbits the sun roughly every 415 years. The Lyrids are named after the constellation Lyra and are one of the "oldest recorded meteor showers." ...

PASADENA, Calif. ( NewsNation) — As NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space ...

It's very rare that planetary geologists can tell whether it was an asteroid or comet that hit. One of the most famous of these 200 or so impact craters is the 200 km-diameter Chicxulub impact ...