Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

It currently sits around 420 million miles (or 670 million kilometres) from Earth. Astronomers have since confirmed its ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first cosmic images using a 3,200-megapixel camera, allowing astronomers ...

An observatory in Chile with the world's largest camera has published first images of star nurseries and galaxies. The Vera ...

"This is five times more than all the astronomers in the world discovered during the last 200 years since the discovery of the first asteroid," Željko Ivezić, Deputy Director of Rubin's Legacy Survey ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...

The probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 will strike the Moon on December 22 2032 is now approximately 4%, and this probability ...