A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

"Our ambitious Rosetta mission has secured a place in the history books: not only is it the first to rendezvous with and ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Perhaps counterintuitively, the probe found the composition of the water vapor on Comet 67P was significantly different from ...

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 ...

Astronomers report that Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS reached its closest point to the Sun on Sept. 27, putting on a spectacular ...

A NASA and European spacecraft watched as a newly discovered comet dubbed the "Halloween comet" met its demise after its close approach to the Sun.

helping better our understanding of comet orbits, composition and evolution. Citizen scientists can contribute to the project and have helped find more than 5,000 comets since the project was ...

The Commons heard calls for the bishops to focus on matters in their ministries rather than on the running of the country.

helping better our understanding of comet orbits, composition and evolution. Citizen scientists can contribute to the project and have helped find more than 5,000 comets since the project was ...

Analysis of this data should give scientists a better understanding of the structure and composition of comets. Ikeya-Seki is now more than 55 mil lion miles away from the sun and gradu ally ...