These strange objects could explain how water arrived on Earth, but may also be a previously unrecognised threat to our ...

When you look up at the night sky, you might wonder about the celestial objects that streak through space,comets, asteroids, ...

The Perseid meteor shower is considered the best of the year due to the 50 to 100 meteors viewers can see per hour.

A Japanese spacecraft is on a remarkable journey toward one of the most puzzling celestial objects in our solar system — a ...

Meteor showers occur when Earth passes through trails of dust and debris left behind by comets or asteroids. The Perseids ...

The best time to watch a meteor shower is in the early predawn hours when the moon is low in the sky. Competing sources of ...

Main-belt comets (MBCs) and active asteroids represent a fascinating intersection of cometary and asteroidal physics. These bodies, residing within the main asteroid belt, occasionally exhibit ...

Asteroids and comets preserve primitive solar system materials, having undergone no severe planetary-scale surface-atmospheric weathering. This renders them "fossils of the solar system," whose ...

Kolkata: Did comets bring water to Earth? WHATSUP may fetch the answer! Goutam Chattopadhyay, a senior scientist at NASA's ...

Comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants. This book tells the story of these enigmatic celestial objects, revealing how scientists are using them to help understand a ...

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and asteroids born elsewhere in the galaxy that zip by the sun as they ...

The Southern Delta Aquariid and the Alpha Capricornid showers will peak after midnight on July 29 and in the early hours of ...