The newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is racing toward the Sun, and it may not survive its closest approach.

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, ...

YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2025 F2 (SWAN), is now visible in the eastern sky before dawn. Officially designated on April 8, ...

The space rock was reported on Dec. 27, 2024, to the Minor Planet Center, the official authority for observing and reporting new asteroids, comets and other small bodies in the solar system. The ...

The Minor Planet Center announced in January that an amateur astronomer discovered a new asteroid. However, the MPC deleted the object from its registry less than a day later. The reason?

However less than 24 hours later, it was deleted from records by the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially recognises such space rocks, as it turned out the 'asteroid' was not actually that.