New observations of 3I/ATLAS provide real data that scientists are using to evaluate asteroid behavior ahead of Apophis’ 2029 ...

A surprising discovery has been made by the Planetary Defense Team that detected the 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid whose path ...

Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, ...

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During its July 1, 2025 detection, the interstellar object happened to be moving ...

When asteroid 2024 YR4 first revealed itself to humans on 27 December 2024, it seemed to have just shown up out of nowhere. An entire asteroid doesn't just materialize out of nothing, though, and now ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

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