Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

The far reaching orbits of LPCs compared to the orbits of Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter (top right). Individual points are for a 60kyr evolution shower for a comet with median elements of shower ...

A comet, only one of five ever discovered, is defying the rules of space. It has a tail, with its water ice fizzling away despite being at a great distance from the Sun.

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Data scientist Shaowei Ying thinks like a policymaker, builds like an entrepreneur and his leadership path's shaped by ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity that observes light bending.

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...