Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now barreling away from the sun, never to return to the solar system. There's one more chance ...

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Wausau Pilot & Review Jupiter steals the show this week as the solar system’s largest planet reaches opposition, shining ...

The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

Jupiter achieves opposition on January 10, providing optimal viewing of its extensive atmospheric details and dynamic Galilean moon transits, including a rare overlapping shadow transit of Callisto.

The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

Asteroid 2022 RD2 is a near-Earth object that could become a temporary moon, then later a potential crash risk for the planet later this century. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Scientists ...

The images were captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on Oct. 3, when the comet passed within about 18 million miles of Mars.

If you’d told me twenty years ago that we’d soon see rockets launching into orbit every day-and-a-half, I’d have smiled politely and changed the subject. Yet here we are: in the first half of 2025, a ...

Astronomers have reportedly discovered a skyscraper-sized asteroid moving through our solar system at a near record-breaking pace. The asteroid, named 2025 SC79, circles the sun once every 128 days, ...