A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S.

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Rio Hurtado first spotted the object ...

In a rare astronomical event, astronomers have confirmed the passage of an interstellar object through our solar system.

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The way comets behave in space may seem random, but new research suggests there’s more order behind the chaos than once believed. A recent study led by researchers at the SETI Institute reveals ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

Newly-discovered comet SWAN25F is expected to reach peak brightness on May 1 and is predicted to be visible from Earth with binoculars.