Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The undersea power lines will help Britain export more clean energy from its wind farms over the coming decade.

A "very bright" meteor shower will bring a spectacular light display to UK skies over the next two nights as it reaches ...

Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...