Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the ...

The mysterious blast site of the Tunguska Event of 1908 is revealed in satellite images obtained by NASA’s Operational Land ...

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and ...

NASA’s also planning to send humans to Mars by 2030 ... some scientists believe it might have actually been a comet (or a piece of one) that slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago, wiping out ...

The fiery ball that streaked across the South Carolina sky Thursday could have been a meteorite, according to the National Weather Service.

Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric ...

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...

Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...

Each day, around 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of ancient debris dating back to the creation of our solar system collide with ...

NASA observes largest Oort Cloud comet, C/2014 UN271, exploding with CO gas jets, thanks to ALMA’s deep-space capabilities.

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

Scientists aimed ALMA at the comet in March 2024 and saw carbon monoxide — a gas that usually doesn’t show up in observations that far away — gushing out of its surface in jets. The team also picked ...