Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com ...

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

But scientists believe comets hurtling through space may hold that wisdom. Like an asteroid, a comet orbits the sun. The latter is a ball of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system.

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

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

Known as one of the top meteor showers of the autumn season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids started to be ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...

They appear to have been formed by 10 or more related space rocks including the comet 2P/Encke. One hypothesis is that Comet ...

The Taurid meteors will appear to originate from the constellation of Taurus, hence their name, but they will be visible from anywhere in the night sky. Taurus will rise in the eastern sky around ...

The Taurid meteor will make its annual appearance in the midnight sky starting Tuesday through Nov. 12, with the "shooting ...

Intel was a dominant leader in the CPU market for the better part of a decade, but AMD has seen massive success in recent ...

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