Pluto and other large bodies in the Kuiper Belt are surprisingly rich in rock rather than ice. It may be because the early ...

The first was the famous Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS whose dust tail of several million miles graced skies all over the ...

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

Its CIVA (Comet Infrared and Visible Analyser) cameras took the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 ...

Last year, another comet, 12P/Pons-Brooks, drew attention with similar explosions that gave it a horned shape, earning it the ...

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

Asteroids, comets, and meteors are all small solar system objects, but they differ in composition and behaviour.

With NASA’s fleet of heliophysics spacecraft, scientists monitor our Sun and investigate its influences throughout the solar ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with "shooting stars" and fast-moving fireballs ...

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 ...