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

16, 2025 — Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding ... The Galactic Journey of Our Solar System Feb. 25, 2025 — Astronomers ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...

COIAS (Come On! Impacting ASteroids) is a web-based application that lets anyone search for Small Solar System Bodies (SSSBs) using images taken by the Subaru Telescope.

The annual display of Lyrids, famous for bright “fireball” shooting stars, will occur from April 17-26, peaking on April 22, ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

Much of what scientists know about the early Solar System comes from meteorites – ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully flew past asteroid Donaldjohanson, collecting data and images of the second of its 11 ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

Instead of looking for a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, a NASA spacecraft is about to approach space debris formed in the early ...