Quite a few comets pass through Earth's orbits every year, but the so-called devil comet earned a rather unique nickname.

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

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

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

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

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

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

While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...

Adam Carlson caught a fine photo of October’s comet, the Tsuchinshan-Atlas, named for the Chinese and South African observatories that first spotted it.

Philae's historic landing on Comet 67P in 2014 provided crucial data on the comet's surface and internal composition, despite technical setbacks. The mission revealed organic molecules and temperature ...