Astronomers posed over the past decade that dark comets, or objects that resemble asteroids but move like comets, may exist.

NASA discovered and later confirmed the first interstellar object to enter our solar system. It wasn't aliens. But artist ...

The Webb Telescope reveals new insights into icy planetesimals, shedding light on the early solar system's evolution.

The water that makes up the oceans acted as a key ingredient for the development of life on Earth. However, scientists still ...

New studies led by researchers at the University of Central Florida offer for the first time a clearer picture of how the ...

Their work revealed that all observed centaur surfaces showed special characteristics when compared with the surfaces of TNOs, suggesting modifications occurred as a consequence of their journey into ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...

This new research, however, focuses on a second possibility: that the organic material formed within Ceres and has been stored in a reservoir shielded from solar ... in the inner solar system ...

On Christmas Eve, the Parker Solar Probe was set to become the closest spacecraft to the sun, flying within a few million miles of the solar surface.

Operations teams have confirmed NASA’s mission to “touch” the Sun survived its record-breaking closest approach to the solar surface on Dec. 24, 2024.

Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.