Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

G3 has mesmerized astronomers and amateur skygazers for months as the world tried to spot the bright comet in the sky nearing its fatal encounter with the Sun.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

Nigerian National League (NNL) clubside, Abia Comets of Umuahia has raised the alarm that one of their strikers, Israel Emmanuel has absconded from the club after playing three matches and ...

Every once in a while, the gravity of a passing star will change the orbit of these dirt balls, sending them into the inner solar system. Some comets have been around for thousands of years ...

The solar system consists of stars, the Sun, 8 planets, dozens of moons, millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It orbits the centre of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph.

Discovered on April 5 last year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the comet hails from the Oort Cloud, a distant region of icy bodies at the edge of the solar system. While ...