Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun. In a new study ... tiny particles in the disk around the young Sun gradually ...

Halley’s Comet appears only once every 75 years, sparking excitement among both casual observers and astronomers. Learn what ...

In a new study, MIT physicists propose that if most of the dark matter in the universe is made up of microscopic primordial ...

September will see the appearance of C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, that has traveled for tens of thousands of ...

study lead author Marc Postman, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said in a statement. "We now have a good idea of just how dark space really is." Precise ...

According to a new study, if a primordial black hole passed within a few hundred million miles of Mars, it could shift the planet's orbit by about a meter -- causing a "wobble." ...

However, any material accompanying Xanthus could still strike Apophis, potentially altering its path and sending it towards Earth. Gulp. Wiegert has now updated his calculations in a new study ...

IT is easy to feel like we know nothing about our universe, and unexplained stellar objects are the most puzzling feature of ...

There’s a short dark window this ... s list of “not-comets,” the Crab is a supernova remnant left by a massive star whose death throes were observed here on Earth in 1054.