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 series of 21 explosions, creating fireballs bigger than Earth itself. This was ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet made its closest pass to the sun, or perihelion, on Jan. 13, soaring a mere 8 million miles (or 9% of the average ... than 5,000 other comets as they flew ...

"The head of the comet became so bright, it overwhelmed LASCO's sensor, creating artificial horizontal bands (known as "bleeding ... has discovered around 5,000 comets so far, according to ...

Marinette (1-12 NEC, 2-17 overall) collected 13 made field goals but it was also tough sledding for the Comets offensively, as the Marines held Waupaca to just 16 buckets.

A fossil from China that’s 150 million years old may be the world’s earliest known bird. The discovery shows that the short tails characteristic of modern birds evolved much earlier than ...