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

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

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

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days ...

Frozen gases, in the form of ice, boulders, and rock dust, make up a comet’s nucleus. Observations of comet 67P reveal that it is rich in carbon and that several chemical compounds previously unknown ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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Opik is available as a fully open source local installation or using Comet.com as a hosted solution. The easiest way to get started with Opik is by creating a free Comet account at comet.com. If you'd ...