The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

The best modern comparison is the 1908 Tunguska Event, when an asteroid or comet fragment measuring 30-50 meters exploded over Siberia, flattening 80 million trees across 770 square miles.

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth keeps shifting, according to scientists. The object — which is large enough to destroy an entire city — has a 0.28% chance of colliding with ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

A new study suggests that ... ESO Observations Help Almost Fully Rule out 2024 YR4 Asteroid Impact Feb. 25, 2025 — New observations of 2024 YR4 conducted with the European Southern Observatory's ...

Britannica.com published of the Tunguska event in 1908, in which scientists believe either an asteroid or comet impacted Siberia after first exploding in the atmosphere, "The energy of the ...

February, asteroid 2024 YR4 was spotted and originally believed to have a 3.1 per cent of hitting Earth in 2032. Further calculations revealed this was not the case.

If a 10-kilometer comet or asteroid struck the Earth, it “would cause way more destruction than even an all-out nuclear war, releasing in an instant an energy much greater than the sum total of ...

There are countless numbers of asteroids and an unknown number of comets throughout our solar system. Most of these objects date back to the very beginnings of our solar system, around 4.5 billion ...