What they found was surprising: the inner Oort Cloud seems to form a spiral disk, stretching about 15,000 astronomical units (AU) long. 1 AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth (149.4 ...

New research suggests the Oort Cloud may have a spiral structure like a mini galaxy. Supercomputer models reveal its ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of impacting our planet in 2032.

The NEO Surveyor mission will be launched on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Florida in September 2027 at the earliest. It will conduct a five-year baseline survey to identify two-thirds of the unknown ...

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

Learn about asteroid 2024 YR4 and its potential impact on Earth in 2032. Explore the risks and predictions surrounding this ...

2025 includes a full schedule of meteor showers. They come around every year like clockwork and that means planning shooting ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to Earth at 26.4 million miles (42.5 million km) away. Credit: Gianluca Masi / ...

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s ...

The giant cloud of detritus is thought to be the source of strange comets and meteorites flying past Earth such as the mysterious cigar-shaped rock known as Oumuamua that was spotted in October 2017.

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch an advanced asteroid hunter telescope that will detect and observe asteroids that could pose ...