Well he should, because those few brief seconds — in July of 1956 — gave young David Levy a star to wish upon for the rest of his life. They also seeded a lifelong passion for astronomy that comes ...

There is currently a 0.28% chance that 2024 YR4 will strike Earth on December 22, 2032 – a drop from 1.5% yesterday – ...

Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" ...

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

There are many famous mysteries from the Middle Ages that have kept us guessing. Such as the fate of King Edward II and the ...

Updates on Asteroid 2024 YR4 have been slower during the full Moon, but experts say the precision of the object’s orbit is ...

The story of VIPER, with its twists and turns, proves the wisdom of NASA’s turn to the commercial sector for partnerships ...

NASA will use the James Webb Space Telescope to gather crucial data on the size of asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small ...

All the way back in 1978 NASA launched the ISEE-3 spacecraft, subsequently renamed as the International Cometary Explorer.