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 ...
From revealing the comet's rubber-ducky shape and unique auroras up close to discovering Earth-like gases streaming from the ...
THE Taurid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, casting “slow and bright” shooting stars across the sky. These fireballs, ...
If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don't worry. The second branch ...
The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers grace the skies each year for more than two months and both branches will ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
About half all comets are from the region known as the Keiper belt ... Jupiter is rising in the East soon after sunset and will reach opposition, its closest approach to Earth in early December. The ...
Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...
Two sister meteor showers are already flashing across night skies — and will peak a week apart. The Southern Taurids will ...