Comets masquerading as asteroids are being found in increasing numbers, with 14 now known in the asteroid belt.
Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it's hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet's surface ...
That is roughly the same width as the entire state of Arizona. Within the last few years, NASA has taken steps to protect ...
Scientists have reevaluated the water composition of Comet 67P, finding it surprisingly similar to Earth's oceans. This ...
Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...
Fast radio bursts, hugely powerful discharges of energy emanating from the furthest reaches of outer space, have confounded ...
The water on Earth might have been delivered from space by comets billions of years ago - NASA scientists say Jupiter-family ...
The project, which gave astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects, ended its mission and re-entered the atmosphere ...
A "harmless" asteroid burned up Tuesday night above northern Siberia in Russia, creating a blazing fireball in the sky ...
The origin of Earth’s abundant liquid water is still debated. Research suggests some water came from volcanic vapor that ...
It went dormant for a time until it was started again as NEOWISE in 2013, to search for near-Earth objects (NEOs) including ...
Comet 67P's water has the same molecular signature as Earth's oceans, suggesting it may have contributed to Earth's water ...