Rare green comet seen racing through the sky for the first time in more than 50,000 years

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a mysterious interstellar interloper spotted passing through our Solar System. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Las

Of the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system, it is all too feasible that one could strike Earth. If scientists discover this is likely to happen, what are our options for defending ourselves – and who will make the key decisions? Tomas Weber reports

Isn’t it amazing that astronomy – humanity’s oldest science – continues to generate such a delightful amount of new knowledge? Seeing as we’ve been studying the motion of the stars for a good long whi

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through the fine dust debris strewn around the orbit of a comet. This happens when Earth is in a similar position in its orbit every year, and meteor showers rep

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is currently blazing towards the ...

BEST TIME TO SEE: 7 September 2025, from moonrise around 19:45 BST (18:45 UT) Remember the total lunar eclipse back in March? Unfortunately, for many observers across the UK, the weather wasn’t good,