As per estimates, such comets can cause up to six per cent of all impacts on Earth. Halley's Comet probably has the shortest ...

A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

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

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Comet 67P was headed toward the inner solar system during the ... We're always trying to improve things, and the really ...

As stage manager for Theatre UAB’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” Juliette Sosa Valle is responsible for every ...

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 ...

to provide the first detailed investigation of the magnetic properties of a comet nucleus. In the end, some 80% of Philae's ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

The South Taurids originate as debris from Comet Encke, while the North Taurids are debris ... Hawkins Writer Josh Hawkins ...