In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...

In that stream, Rosetta found lots of organic material and other data that revealed that a few noble gases in Earth's atmosphere come from comets, leading to the hypothesis that a flux of comet ...

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and not Welsh origins, researchers say. The finding suggests that Late Neolithic ...

Find out how comets are connected to some of our favorite annual astronomy events with November's Night Sky Notes!

The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.

The comet was discovered on September 27.

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

The first is a matter of planetary defense: They can impact, and have impacted, Earth. Asteroids the size of cars often ... Stardust, which gobbled up matter from a comet, came home in 2006—its ...

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...