Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...
BS4 may be anywhere between 17 and 40 feet across, and will approach at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon.
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.
The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.
The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph aboard the Soho spacecraft captured the view of the comet as it flew with a ...