The Popular Astronomy Club meets the second Monday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Butterworth Center in Moline. All are welcome to attend. You can also find us on Facebook or visit our website, at ...
Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...
Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the Rosetta mission ... Rosetta found lots of organic material and ...
In a NASA video, Ryan Park, a near-Earth asteroid expert ... home in the outer solar system by the gravity of another object, redirecting them toward the sun. As the comet gains speed, it swings ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
If Pluto was somehow deflected toward the inner solar system, there is a good chance it would develop quite a tail. Comets that originate in this ... time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from ...
Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...
Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...
In the past, spaceflight was the preserve of government-funded astronauts who had to meet stringent physical, cognitive, ...
N ASA's planetary defense telescope Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) has burned up in the ...
In 2022 its space agency, NASA, collided a semi-autonomous spacecraft (capable of self-steering as well as being remotely ...
The Southern Taurids meteor shower will enter its peak on Monday night — and people across the world can view it at midnight ...