Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

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

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

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

Should YR4 strike the Moon, the collision could eject up to 100 million kilograms of lunar debris into space. A portion of this material might enter Earth’s orbit, posing risks to satellites and other ...

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 made a groundbreaking discovery, detecting 2,100 new asteroids in just 10 hours. With ...

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

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

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

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

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