On November 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae tried to land on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be ...

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

They’re actually leftover comet particles — debris entering earth’s atmosphere at super high speeds. The Leonids shower will ...

A new study challenges traditional spin-statistics assumptions in ion-atom charge exchanges, revealing unexpected dynamics in C3+ and helium collisions and opening new avenues in quantum reactivity.

If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don't worry. The second branch ...

Above: Takaya Okada (Japan) observes Comet C/2023 A3 with his EVSCOPE2. In the background you can see the comet tracing its ...

In recent years, several spacecraft have studied comets up close. NASA’s Stardust mission brought back samples from Comet Wild-2 to Earth in 2006. The particles were chock full of hydrocarbons — ...

From my backyard I got to see an aurora and a comet with my naked eyes ... they were close enough to the sun to be heated so all the very light, or volatile molecules, such as water or carbon dioxide ...

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

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on ...