The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...
Nearly 50 years after launch, a pair of aging spacecraft have stumbled into one of the strangest regions ever measured in ...
Recently, scientists discovered the fastest-spinning large asteroid in the solar system.It’s about the length of eight ...
A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21. - NASA/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA) A new image has revealed ...
Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside our Sun and planets around 4.5 billion years ago. But every now and then, ...
An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between by ...
In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...
An ancient comet discovered in our solar system this summer is offering a rare opportunity to learn more about distant planetary systems far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, researchers say. The ...