As six major meteor showers remain or are set to peak by the end of 2024, here's how those in central Kansas can have the ...

Comets are common in the universe, but not a lot of them are frequent visitors to our solar system. Those that do take the ...

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 ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

Scientists aim to detect hazardous comets early by studying meteoroid trails near Earth, a recent study reveals.

Halley’s comet is the most famous of this type ... the southern evening sky and is approaching the time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from Earth. This happens every fourteen years or so, ...

Tiny grains from asteroid Ryugu are revealing clues to the magnetic forces that shaped the far reaches of the solar system over 4.6 billion years ago. The findings suggest the distal solar system ...

A comet is defined as an icy body that is small in size and can develop a ‘tail’ of gas as it approaches the Sun from the outer Solar System. The key traits of a comet are its nucleus, coma, and tail.

When Earth finds itself passing through one of these debris fields, we experience meteor showers! The most well-known of ...