For years, we thought a giant comet object smacked into Earth 66 million years ago, signing the collective death certificate ...

Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com | NASA ...

Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor showers, according to a new ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a ... 2024 — Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun.

Studying this Jupiter-sized world and its long comet-like tail can teach us more about the physics of space, including how planets and their host stars evolve together over time. "The WASP-69b ...

Asteroids and comets move in paths which are more oval ... Only two of the terrestrial planets have moons orbiting them: Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 79 moons.

Meteor showers can be spectacular, but predicting when and where they’ll appear in the night sky has often been a challenge.

"Long-period comets spend most of their lives so far away from the solar system that they feel the tug from the barycenter," said Pilorz. "But every few hundred years they swoop inside Jupiter's ...