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 ...

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

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

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

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.

A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...

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

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

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

Another astronomical event could be visible in the coming nights as the second branch of the Taurid meteor shower reaches its ...