It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s an asteroid-comet hybrid called a ‘centaur’ that might not even be that. Asteroids are ...

Comet ATLAS G3 will be closest to the Sun on Jan. 13, 2025, but will mainly be visible only from the Southern Hemisphere.

UCF researchers utilized the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover unique characteristics of (2060) Chiron, a distant ...

What "may" be the best anticipated comet of 2025 is coming right up. Right now, there's only one comet with real potential to ...

In 2017, astronomers discovered the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua. In 2023, we reported the discovery of seven solar system ...

Scientists still do not know where the water here on Earth came from. But two populations of so-called dark comets may tell us.

NASA's Stardust spacecraft flew by comet Wild 2 to collect some comet dust and bring it back to Earth. Stardust was the first ...

ROCHESTER — It all seemed to be going well for about 38 minutes in the Utica Comets' return from the AHL’s annual holiday break. The Comets, which scored twice in the opening three minutes of ...

Throughout the day across North America, this alignment projected the Moon's shadow onto Earth's surface, which followed ... hits' for this year was Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. First spotted in ...

But where did this water originate? One theory suggests that comets, the cosmic snowballs that orbit the sun, have crashed into the moon, delivering their water to its surface. Another theory is that ...

where we see gases that are originating from the surface or just below it.” Dr. Pinilla-Alonso noted that Chiron’s dual nature makes it invaluable for studying processes in both comets and ...