Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
Discover the groundbreaking NASA mission that aimed to unlock the mysteries of comets and their connection to life in our ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
In April, the astronomer said that he had discovered a large asteroid with a diameter of about 200 meters, potentially dangerous for the Earth ...
The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...
The human family was treated to comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) during October, a visitor from the outer reaches of the ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
ATLAS, discovered in 2023, has made its closest approach to the Sun.According to reports, the long-period comet last visited ...
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 ...
A unique opportunity to view two approaching comets just days apart will happen as the month comes to an end and December ...