The Rosetta probe's lander Philae landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November, 2014, after a decade spent travelling nearly 4 billion miles through space. Having left Earth in 2004 ...

Rubin Observatory's supervision — may detect these comets years before they pose a threat. Exactly how far in advance, however, wasn't clear. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

Pressure builds within the nucleus until the shell cracks and the comet's icy guts, or cryomagma, spray into space. After an eruption, or outburst, the comet's coma — a fuzzy, reflective cloud ...

This decision was communicated by Devils’ President and General Manager Tom Fitzgerald, along with Assistant General Manager and Utica Comets General Manager Dan MacKinnon. “Unfortunately, after the ...

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days of our solar system's formation and holding clues about the origins ...

"Hale-Bopp has been a favorite of comet studies in part because it was one of the brightest comets seen." Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules ...

Occasionally, comets from the Oort Cloud are given a gravitational nudge toward the Sun. Some become bright and sport long tails before heading back into deep space again. The clue to these ...

A timelapse of the return of the Starship Super Heavy booster to the launch site to be caught by the launch tower on the vehicle's fifth integrated flight Oct. 13. Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON ...

The Taurids are split into different showers as they result from two separate streams of debris in space. The Southern Taurids are a result of a trail left by the comet 2P/Encke, and while the ...

The world's first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said Tuesday, part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Scientists at Kyoto ...

KYOTO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The world's first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

A SpaceX rocket launched Monday night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the world’s first satellite model with wooden components, marking a potential shift in space engineering ...