A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Comet G3 ATLAS faced just such a perilous passage, reaching perihelion 14 million kilometers from the Sun on January 13th.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope Project captured imagery of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF). The comet's closest approach to ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

New research indicates that these canyons, in an area called the Schrödinger impact basin on the side of the moon perpetually ...

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

Watch a comet join the aurora australis for a brilliant night sky display caught on camera on Saturday, Feb. 1. Comet C/2024 ...

They were dug out by debris sent violently aloft when an asteroid or comet struck the lunar surface 3.8 billion years ago.

The energy to produce the grand canyons on the Moon is about 130 times larger than the energy in the global inventory of ...

While it has been established that water exists on the Moon, pinpointing its precise locations presents a formidable ...