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

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

G3 (ATLAS) is now visible in the post-sunset night sky. It's best seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but it's visible north of ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13, reaching the perihelion of its massive, 160,000-year orbit through our solar system. The comet was only first ...

G3 has mesmerized astronomers and amateur skygazers for months as the world tried to spot the bright comet in the sky nearing its fatal encounter with the Sun.

Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...

New observations suggest that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), which recently became visible to the naked eye, might be breaking ...

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

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...