Earth is set to host a rare visitor, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, on October 29, 2025. Discovered in July 2025, this celestial object, originating from beyond our solar system, will pass by at a safe distance of 1.

UN launches a global planetary-defence campaign as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS speeds past Earth, sparking both scientific curiosity and international cooperation—though NASA insists there is no threat.

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time,

The space rock dubbed 2025 TF was spotted hours after it flew past Antarctica by the Nasa-funded Catalina Sky Survey, which uses telescopes in Arizona and Australia to spot near-Earth objects. European astronomers then observed it using the Las Cumbres ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

A small asteroid, known as 2025 TF, flew over Antarctica on October 1, 2025, at an altitude of only 266 miles.

Earth has welcomed a new temporary mini-moon, asteroid 2025 PN7, a 62-foot object now orbiting our planet for decades. This quasi-moon, part of the Ar

The year 2020 is clearly out to make its mark in a big way: a global pandemic, massive wildfires across the Western United States, huge demonstrations for social justice around the globe. Here’s another one: a record observed near-miss of Earth by a rock ...