A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to ...

A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

Watch a comet join the aurora australis for a brilliant night sky display caught on camera on Saturday, Feb. 1. Comet C/2024 ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

While it has been established that water exists on the Moon, pinpointing its precise locations presents a formidable ...

Alaskans are pretty familiar with a variety of resources that are regularly mined in the state, but perhaps not too familiar ...

An asteroid set to swing by Earth in 2032 has small chance of smashing into our planet, but experts aren't panicking — yet.