This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

It came from outer space! In the early morning of June 30, 1908, people in the remote Tunguska region of Siberia beheld an ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

As a planetary geologist, my research focuses on meteorite impact craters, the scars of large asteroid and cometary impacts in Earth’s past. There are countless numbers of asteroids and an unknown ...

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets nudged into our neighborhood of space by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets. They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the ...

However, scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from in the first place. One leading idea is that space rocks such as comets and asteroids delivered water to the Earth through ...