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

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

A close friend, reflecting on her own photography practice, recently told me that she still had so much to say in black and white. I thought of her sentiment while watching Seeds, Brittany Shyne ...

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency 'Something the overwhelming majority of Americans ...

The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency Trump administration erases mention of climate ...

At the heart of a comet, Dr Horner says, is a nucleus with something like a "dirty snowball" of ice, rock, and dust. And as it gets closer to the heat of the Sun, the ice heats up past the point ...

Astronomy and shooting seem to have little in common. But two space missions since 2004 resemble skeet shooting, albeit on a much larger scale. Consider the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test).

“The head is basically shattered because what happens is a comet is really just a loose pile of rubble and frozen gas and dust and so it’s not a solid rock, it’s more of a conglomeration of ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear. When you ...

The Mecha Comet is a new modular handheld Linux computer that emphasizes versatility, repairability, and sustainability. Compact yet powerful, it is designed to appeal to a wide range of users ...