Research supports the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis, suggesting a comet fragment caused significant climatic changes and ...

It's a treat to see a supermoon. But that bright glowing orb will still be almost full when the Leonid meteor shower peaks ...

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 ...

The latter is a ball of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system ... NASA’s Stardust mission brought back samples from Comet Wild-2 to Earth in 2006. The particles were chock full of ...

Both showers share the same parent source—originating from the debris of comet Encke ... ranging from the size of a dust particle to a boulder, may be visible in the night sky.

If you spotted comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) in person, or seen photos online this October, you might have been inspired to learn more about these visitors from the outer Solar System. Get ready ...

The Perseids meteor shower occurs annually between July 17 and Aug 24 when the earth passes through a comet's path and the comet dust burns when entering the earth's atmosphere. – Bernama ...

While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and dust more officially known as C/2024 S1 (ATLAS), disintegrated on Oct. 28 as it approached the sun. The comet's final ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

While many backyard astronomers were waking up early to catch a glimpse of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS and its stunning anti-tail, another comet was making its way through our solar system.

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS ... was essentially a "dirty snowball," a frozen body composed of gases, rocks and dust left over from the earliest days of our solar system some 4.6 billion years ...