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

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

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

will probe a comet visiting our solar system for the first time. As such, the comet will contain material that has undergone ...

Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta mission. So the probe was tasked with rendezvousing ...

The object – which has the full name C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) – was found last year but in recent weeks has passed close ...

A new study published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society proposes that most comets in our Solar System are originally from alien star systems. The research also ...

The object, which appears to be a comet-like body, entered our solar system at an angle that suggested it originated somewhere else, and subsequent observations proved that to be the case.

and stared back at the birth of our solar system. They were stunned by what they saw. Scientists have long known that the planets, comets, and other bodies orbiting the sun were born, some 4.5 ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

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

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 ...