The connection between those icy comets — which are called Jupiter-family comets because their orbits are affected by Jupiter ...
Scientists have reevaluated the water composition of Comet 67P, finding it surprisingly similar to Earth's oceans. This ...
Within the last few years, NASA has taken steps to protect humanity from threats posed by not only asteroids but also other ...
An asteroid hitting a neutron star could release enough energy to power humanity for 100 million years, more than enough to ...
Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...
“A wave of comet and asteroid collisions with the solar system’s inner planets 4 billion years ago would have made this ...
The origin of Earth’s abundant liquid water is still debated. Research suggests some water came from volcanic vapor that ...
Scientists say cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets as potential ...
The asteroids, named 447755 (2007 JX2) and (2020 XR), are each estimated to be roughly between 900 feet and 2,100 feet across ...
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid will fly close to Earth amid a flurry of space activity on Tuesday, December 3. People ...
While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech ...
Identifying asteroids on a potential collision course with Earth could be made easier thanks to an advancement in how to ...