The John J. McCarthy Observatory - run by volunteers on the grounds of New Milford High School - has been watching the night sky for 25 years.

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

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The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

Astronomers at the University of Washington recently discovered a record-breaking asteroid using early images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, Azernews reports, citing foreign media.

Dear EarthTalk: It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face—even bigger than global warming or a nuclear war—is a comet or asteroid striking the Earth. Do we ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in space? And, either... Comets, asteroids, and planets: The likely origins ...

Asteroids, comets, and meteors differ in origin and behavior—remnants of our Solar System that sometimes create dazzling ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A powerful new telescope spots an unusually large asteroid spinning faster than thought possible, challenging long held ideas ...