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 ...

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Juno also snapped pictures of Jupiter's potato-shaped inner moon, named Amalthea. With a radius of only 52 miles (84 ...

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In a NASA video, Ryan Park, a near-Earth asteroid expert, sums up the differences in ... Legend holds that Pope Callixtus III excommunicated Halley's Comet in 1456 as an "instrument of the devil," ...

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

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