Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now ...
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...
In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...
The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024.
G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.
This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...