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

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Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

However, there were some unexpected findings, which experts now say were down to a bout of extreme space weather at the time of the flyby. They suggest this solar storm likely squashed the planet’s ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

In its five hour flyby, Voyager 2 found that Uranus is very weird ... It was discovered in 1781 by astronomer William ...

When the 'God of Chaos' asteroid flies by our planet in five years, Earth's gravity could cause it to experience ...

Cancel anytime. The best is yet to come for sky watchers who want to see the long-tailed comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Astronomers say it should put on a show the next few days. The comet Tsuchinshan ...

Last month, an asteroid impacted Earth's atmosphere just hours after being detected — somehow, it managed to circumvent ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is about to make its final flyby of Venus, a crucial maneuver that will slingshot it closer to the Sun than any spacecraft before. This daring mission aims to unlock the ...

Since NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016 and began transmitting image data, the world has gotten glimpses of the solar system's largest planet and its moons. But a new ...