An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a high-speed comet traveling through our solar system. Scientists ...

Images captured in December 2024 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System shows the path of a 130 to 300-foot-wide asteroid having a more than 1% chance of hitting Earth on ...

In a groundbreaking study,Harvard physicist Dr. Avi Loeb has brought new attention to an unusual interstellar object, ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

Dubbed 2024 YR4, the approximately 150-foot-wide asteroid was first spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Dec. 27, 2024.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1% ...

NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first discovered the asteroid, named 2024 YR4, in December 2024, according to a blog post from the agency.

The first Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System telescope, or ATLAS 1, has been completed atop Maui's Haleakala volcano in Hawaii. The ATLAS telescope is one of two planned to search for ...

Once it is ready in 2015, the new Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (or ATLAS) will consist of eight small telescopes, each equipped with cameras of up to 100 megapixels in resolution.

The animation, provided by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shows the path of a 130- to 300-foot-wide asteroid — named 2024 YR4 — having a more than 1% ...