The Taurid meteor showers offer a yearly spectacle, making November a special month for both amateur stargazers and seasoned ...
The Leonid meteor shower, which started on Nov. 3, will peak above the Connecticut skies beginning on Nov. 17.
ESA’s Rosetta and Philae mission explored comet 67P, revealing secrets about the solar system’s formation and Earth’s origins ...
The North and South Taurids occur every year in September, October, and November. They may have originated from a comet that broke up about 10,000 years ago.
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...
As we round the corner of 2024, there are plenty of events happening when you should keep your eyes to the sky.
On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...
A decade ago, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) had just wrapped up the yearslong process of building a ...
The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...
Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...
The stunning shower, which is caused by debris like ice and dust from Comet Encke passing through our solar system and ...