An airplane-sized asteroid named 2025 OZ will make its closest approach to Earth on July 24, passing at a distance of 3.34 ...

An asteroid believed to be up to 700metres wide will pass relatively close to Earth within days, and is being tracked by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Asteroid 2005 VO5 will pass Earth at ...

The issue concerns sunlight reflecting off the satellites’ surfaces. SpaceX has attempted to reduce the brightness of the reflected light by coating the satellites in a dark material, and also by ...

"The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity," said Avi Loeb.

The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday ...

On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual high-speed object zooming towards the sun. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the surprising space ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...

The comet’s orbit is huge, extending out to about 55,000 times the Earth-sun distance—87 percent of a light-year and well out into the Oort Cloud of icy objects that surrounds our sun.

The fireball was detected by the satellite on June 26, 2025, above the town of Oxford, Georgia, using an instrument to map flashes of lightning from orbit. The object was flaring in its trajectory due ...