The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.

Telescopes across the globe will track it so that astronomers can determine its exact location and make predictions about ...

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International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

With 3I/ATLAS just days away from making its closest approach to Earth, agencies around the globe are conducting the largest ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from beyond our solar system, has prompted an international scientific tracking campaign led ...

The world's largest planetary defense drill is underway as scientists prepare for 3I/ATLAs to make its closest pass by Earth ...

Principal researcher James Bauer says observations from the International Asteroid Warning Network will help experts better understand how to send spacecraft to comets in the future ...

Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

A stray comet will make its closest approach to Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar ...