Discover the groundbreaking NASA mission that aimed to unlock the mysteries of comets and their connection to life in our ...

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

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

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

The human family was treated to comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) during October, a visitor from the outer reaches of the ...

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

The first was Comet C/1980 E1 (Bowell), which was put on a solar system escape path by an encounter with Jupiter on Dec. 9, ...

Decaying dark matter? The shell of dust around our solar system—as far out as ex-ninth planet Pluto—is most likely may be pollution from comets, claim the scientists. Comets orbit the Sun ...

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 ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS captivated the Northern Hemisphere. Now, Australians have a chance to see the celestial visitor that ...