Faster and more brilliant than regular shooting stars, the Leonid meteor shower is making its annual return to the skies.
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...
Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
In a NASA video, Ryan Park, a near-Earth asteroid expert, sums up the differences in ... receiving the nickname "the green comet" for its emerald hue. The color comes from carbon in the gas cloud ...