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Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. Scientists have ...
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...
World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...
A massive asteroid named 2005 YY128 will fly by Earth at a safe distance on Feb. 15, Paul Chodas, the director for the Center of Near Earth Object Studies at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Although Earth only has one Moon, it does have other natural satellites, including asteroid 2016 HO3, known as a "co-orbital object." These tiny celestial objects could be an "attractive ...
Near-Earth objects (NEO) are asteroids, comets and large meteoroids whose orbit intersects Earth's orbit and which may therefore pose a collision danger. Due to their size and proximity, NEOs are ...
In “Near-Earth Objects,” Donald K. Yeomans outlines the dangers to earth lurking in our solar system.
A new study suggests that up to 60% of near-Earth objects are dark comets, a nearly invisible hybrid object that behaves like a comet and an asteroid at the same time.