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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

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

If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don't worry. The second branch ...

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a centaur, a class of objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. However, it displays ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...