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

Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta ... Over the year, Rosetta recorded up to two bathtubs' ...

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary feat, we celebrate Philae's impressive achievements at Comet ...

"While dust grains are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium ... To this end, they are currently preparing a model study of ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

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 ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...

The comet's dust trail was more visible in a Navy space telescope than any other. A dazzling comet left behind a dramatic dust tail as it swept around the sun, new photos reveal. C/2023 A3 ...

The comet is massive in size and length. Its head currently measures a whopping two miles in diameter. The tail, which is largely comprised of tiny pieces of ice and dust, is believed to be as ...

SpaceX has announced the next test flight for its Starship rocket, and it's sooner than you probably expected. The sixth ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is one of 2 comets from the Oort Cloud passing by Earth in October 2024. Each year, the Earth runs through a broad river of dust surrounding Comet Halley – giving birth ...

A dazzling comet left behind a dramatic dust tail as it swept around the sun, new photos reveal. C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) was visible to the naked eye earlier in October as the comet ...