The chance of a newly discovered space rock hitting Earth in about eight years was predicted at 1.6 percent last week. Though ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. For comparison, the Washington Monument is about 555 feet tall, the Golden Gate Bridge is ...

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A massive asteroid, 2022 CE2, is set to make a close flyby of Earth on Thursday. The 370-foot asteroid will travel at an astounding speed of 47,721 km/h but poses no threat, passing at a safe ...

The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution of the debris cloud created by the smash-up over the course of a ...

This flyby is a rare event, occurring once every decade for an asteroid of this size. Experts confirm Alinda is among the five largest asteroids expected to come this close to Earth by 2200. NASA ...

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The Oort Cloud is thought to be a sphere of ancient, icy objects surrounding the solar system. Comets there are sometimes dislodged by the gravity of another object, redirecting them toward the sun.

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is set to become visible for the first time in 160,000 years - and you don't want to miss it.

Emerging from the Oort Cloud in the solar system, the G3 comet was first discovered on 5 April last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). Nasa astronaut Dom Pettit ...