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In that stream, Rosetta found lots of organic material and other data that revealed that a few noble gases in Earth's ...

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

LPCs may cause up to 6 per cent of all impacts on the Earth and those about ... The streams of rocks and dust ejected from ...

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

New research indicates that the Taurid swarm contains fewer large asteroids than anticipated, suggesting a lower threat level ...

The comet was discovered on September 27.

The so-called "Halloween comet" vaporized as it flew within 1 million miles of the sun on Monday, its destruction captured by ...

Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it's easy to understand why. They first appear as faint smudges of light in the sky, sometimes fading soon after and sometimes becoming brighter ...

The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground. Since then, the mission has upended everything we know about our solar system.

Watch Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) make a death dive into the sun in this eerie footage from the Solar and Heliospheric ...

NASA and the European Space Agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) as it made its ...