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

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

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

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The comet's solid nucleus, the source of the whole show, is a dirty space iceberg ... It fell in toward the sun from the cold and dark outer solar system, originating in a region referred to ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

The skies over Iowa recently have been filled with Northern Lights on many nights and a comet, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) ...

Alfred University held a ceremony Thursday to announce the opening its Space Materials Institute, established in the Inamori ...

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

The successor mission, NASA's NEO Surveyor (Near Earth Object Surveyor), will be the first space telescope that will be ...

Despite its relative weakness, researchers believe it was sufficient to affect the formation of bodies at distances more than seven times the Earth-Sun distance. That includes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...