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 ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

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, ...

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

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

So, much of the damage was done before it got close to the sun, giving our nearest star a partial pass on being the full ...

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 ...

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