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

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

Along with "dark comets," which scientists think make up ... ejecting dust when they collide with other small asteroids or meteoroids — the Hubble Space Telescope, for example, has captured ...

Roughly speaking, an asteroid is a relatively small body (that isn’t a comet), usually rocky or metallic, composed of dirt and ice. Small asteroids are also called meteoroids. When an asteroid ...

We watch comets with wonder when they fly by Earth. But when asteroids like 2024 MK fly across our orbit, we track them with fear. Here's why. Asteroids and comets were formed about 4.5 billion ...

Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), it is a nonperiodic comet that's traveling on an orbit that won't bring it back to the sun's neighborhood ...

"About once a year, an automobile-sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, creates an impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface. "Every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size ...

The Perseid meteor shower is our planet's annual run-in with the trail of debris left behind by a comet called 109P/Swift ... trail of tiny granules called meteoroids, they slam into our ...

When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or ... The space rock marked the first time astronomers understood comets could be repeat visitors to our skies, as previously it was thought they ...

We call the little chunks meteoroids, the big icy chunks comets, and the big rocky chunks, asteroids. Most asteroids rather conveniently live in a place between Mars and Jupiter known as the ...