A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's ...

ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Last year, another comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, drew attention with similar explosions that gave it a horned shape, earning it the ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The Popular Astronomy Club meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Butterworth Center in Moline. All are ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...