Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.
The G3 ATLAS comet entered inside the orbit of Mercury when it was closest to the Taeyang. When comets get very close to the Taeyang, many are destroyed by intense heat. This is a view of the ...
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
Researchers discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 last Christmas — and the odds on it hitting Earth have increased since ...
A dive into probabilities, asteroid impact modeling, and what sort of damage an approximately 180-foot asteroid could cause ...
With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...
An asteroid set to swing by Earth in 2032 has small chance of smashing into our planet, but experts aren't panicking — yet.
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...