A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...
Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...
'Crumb trails' of meteoroids could reveal potentially dangerous comets years before they reach Earth
Halley's Comet, for instance, whizzes past Earth every 76 years ... impactors when they were billions of miles away gave ...
The North and South Taurids are meteor showers that come from the breakup of a large comet about 10,000 years ago, says Bill ...
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that ...
Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a centaur, a class of objects that orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. However, it displays ...
Each time the comet Encke returns to the inner solar system, its comparatively small nucleus sheds ice and rock into space to ...
The comet blasted off four times within hours and left astronomers wondering about why has it suddenly become so active ...
Instruments from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recorded the passage of comet C/2023 A3, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, as it moved close to the sun. The observation by the LASCO telescope revealed a ...
Nicknamed the “Halloween comet,” Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) evaporated during its flyby of the sun on Monday morning. An ESA and NASA telescope captured its demise.
Named after the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first studied them in the 19th century, these comets are thought to be fragments of a single large comet that broke apart several centuries ago.
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