The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

the comet will make its closest approach to the sun on Jan. 12, according to NASA. Named C/2022 E3 (ZTF), the comet has an orbit around the sun that passes through the outer reaches of the solar ...

A brilliant comet lights up the night sky over Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning image captured by a photographer with the European Southern Observatory in January 2025. For several days in ...

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Way back in April of 2024, observers at a small telescope in Chile reported a very faint speck hurtling toward the Sun. It was a comet, the icy siblings of asteroids ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

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Warmer weather means more time to get outdoors and see what's above. A meteor shower that has been observed for 2,700 years ...

Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico, just hours after leaving the International Space Station.

Nasa’s two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago.