Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 3I/Atlas, a rare interstellar object that had some astronomers wondering whether it's a spacecraft, will soon reach its nearest ...

Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is tracking a near-Earth asteroid roughly the size of an airplane. The asteroid named 2025 XQ3 is set to make a safe closest approach to our planet on December 19, ...

Perhaps you’ve already noticed the dazzling red dot dancing in the night sky. That’s Mars, our planetary neighbor. And for the past few weeks it has been growing brighter as it slowly approaches a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up look at the sun. Since then, it has flown ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to make its closest appearance to Earth today. This event is significant for astronomers studying the object. The comet offers a rare opportunity to examine matter ...

This image, provided by NASA, shows the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas captured by the Hubble Space Telescope on Nov. 30, 2025, about 178 million miles (286 million kilometers) from Earth. (NASA, ESA, ...

There will be an upcoming space spectacle come the early morning of Christmas 2024, with NASA's already six-year-old spacecraft, the Parker Solar Probe, set to make another approach to the Sun.

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