Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

A comet, only one of five ever discovered, is defying the rules of space. It has a tail, with its water ice fizzling away ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship. But how can that be? If Jupiter doesn ...

The far reaching orbits of LPCs compared to the orbits of Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter (top right). Individual points are for a 60kyr evolution shower for a comet with median elements of shower ...

Data scientist Shaowei Ying thinks like a policymaker, builds like an entrepreneur and his leadership path's shaped by ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Why do we have a special day to celebrate space rocks? On June 30, 1908, a massive explosion over Tunguska in Siberia ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's Theory of Relativity that observes light bending.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The first videos released by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal thousands of drifting asteroids, hundreds of thousands of ...

Asteroids, often overlooked, hold vital clues about our solar system's formation and potential future. Missions like ...