NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Michigan State University and NASA researchers discover seven dark comets that reveal new solar system secrets.

G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...

A photo taken from the International Space Station captures the brilliant comet known as C/2024 G3 ATLAS, which could be the ...

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

Just like Earth, comets also spin on an axis (or sometimes tumble on multiple axes, like a wobbly, spinning top, but that’s a topic for another day!) as they orbit the Sun. The time it takes to ...

Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Perfect weather has opened up Adelaide’s skies for an event of a lifetime that won’t happen again for about 160,000 years.