XS3 will pass Earth on December 19, 2024, at a safe distance of 2,080,000 miles. While there is no risk of collision, the ...
Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar ...
Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the ...
Although our solar system is billions of years old, we've only recently become better acquainted with one of its more dynamic ...
International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.
Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.
Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.
Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024.