Tag: comet

The answer was there all along.

It's big, but don't worry, it won't come near Earth.

The mammoth comet's approach will provide astronomers a unique opportunity to study the conditions of the early solar system.

It roughly overlaps their wake through solar wind.

The study of the untainted interstellar comet 2I/Borisov has allowed astronomers to compare material found in our solar system to ...

Sadly, it met its end in the Sun's corona.

Does this mean we can get a tan on a comet?

"It's traveling so fast it almost doesn't care that the Sun is there."

It's only the second time that astronomers have detected an interstellar visitor.

Comets seem to release molecular oxygen all the time -- and some scientists have recreated the process on Earth.

A well-known asteroid is spectacularly disintegrating before astronomers' eyes.

The meteorite only lives as it is falling.

Biology -- it may literally be out of this world.

Phosphates forged in space made their way to Earth on comets and asteroid.

Even before it actually started doing science, TESS sent back awesome footage of a passing comet.

I wonder if it smells stale.

Pluto just got weirder.

Literally out of this world.

Turns out, planet farts are just like ours, but with chlorine!

Asteroids of a feather flock together. Sometimes into a comet.

Comets are far more geologically active than we thought.

There may have been a bang.

As Rosetta's mission draws close to an end, its high-resolution camera snapped a few photos of the Philae lander.

Researchers have documented a more familiar curiosity: what dust particles on a comet look like.

For the first time, astronomers have detected primordial oxygen gassing out from a comet

It's ludicrous, but it might just be crazy enough to work. On Monday, during the American Institute of Aeronautics and ...

Rosetta is a robotic space probe built and launched by the European Space Agency. Along with Philae, its lander module, ...

The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Rosetta mission will continue until at least September 2016, when it will ...

Just like a deep fried scoop of ice cream, comets, such as the much heralded Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko which saw a ...

A new study may have finally found where Earth's water came from. There are currently two competing theories, with one ...

As you might remember, a few days ago we were telling you about the fantastic success of the Rosetta mission ...

Only a couple of weeks ago, a historic rendezvous between the Rosetta spacecraft and Comet 67P was made after a 10-year round-trip journey of ...

As we were telling you already in several articles, the Rosetta probe is in orbit of a comet - the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko ...

OK, so we've been keeping you up to date with what's been happening with the Rosetta mission, but we had ...

In case you're not aware, the European Space Agency is just now trying to send Rosetta's lander, Philae, towards the comet ...

The Rosetta probe found a comet which "sings". Image via ABC. As I am writing this, the Rosetta mission's lander, ...

Launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Rosetta probe is nearing a crucial part in its mission - it ...

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta probe tasked to orbit a comet for the very first ...

This oddball cosmic body, called  P/2013 P5, has puzzled astronomers for a while. By mass and orbit, it can only ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence of a comet entering Earth’s atmosphere and exploding, obliterating everything in its ...

The high temperatures of the meteorite impact 12,900 years ago produced mm-sized spherules of melted glass with the mullite and ...

The current leading theory that explains the mass extinction of the dinosaurs - once the dominant group of animals on ...

This month the PAN-STARSS comet can be seen at its brightest, a truly rare event that can be witnessed in ...

Photograph of Comet West, one of the greatest comets of all-time, taken by an amateur astronomer. (c) John Laborde Discovered ...

Discovered just last week by a Russian team at the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON), the comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) ...

A moonless night might offer the best setting for the best view of the upcoming Lyrid meteor shower in years ...

A recently published study suggests that the Earth might have been visited by a giant space rock 13,000 years ago, ...

NASA has developed a harpoon that would make even the most pretentious pirate jealous: it can latch on to comets ...

Black holes are perhaps the most fascinating and staggering objects in the known Universe, and we are just now beginning ...

I was lucky enough this weekend to be away from the city and at an altitude of about 1800m, deep ...