On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

Want to see comets in the night sky ... thaws in the heat of the sun. The comet passed and survived its closest point to the sun, known as perihelion, on Jan. 13, 2025. G3 (ATLAS) is "now moving ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets. Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 alien star systems ...

Therefore, more observations will be required in the coming weeks to accurately determine the comet's fate. Comets like C/2024 G3 disintegrate when high levels of solar radiation crack open their ...

Brain Cells Remain Healthy After a Month on the International Space Station, but Mature Faster Than Brain Cells on Earth Dec. 17, 2024 — Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones ...

This shrouds the nucleus in a vast cloud of gas and dust, which is then blown away from the Sun, creating the comet's tails. Comets that get particularly close to the Sun can become spectacular.

SEVENTY-TWO percent of murder victims in 2024 were known to police, 15 percent were killed while on bail, and 11 percent were under electronic monitoring at the time of their murder, according to ...