The Solar System has a new confirmed comet, after repeated observations of candidate 456P/PANSTARRS showed it is an active, icy body. The object, discovered in 2021 and given the temporary name ...

Eric Mack is a reporter covering science, sustainability and space. Comet P/2016 BA14 (Pan-STARRS) isn’t your average space snowball and it knows how to make an entrance. At first 2016 BA14 was ...

The latest to be discovered, catalogued as 456P/PANSTARRS (meaning that it is the 456th periodic comet known, and was discovered by the Pan-STARRS project), is just the 14th main-belt comet to be ...

Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) or just Comet PANSTARRS, has graced our March skies. These are some of the images from the Sy at Night flickr site.

THIS year looks set to be another blockbuster year for daring space missions, from China’s asteroid retrieval to the first-ever private space station. Here are some of the biggest space ...

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During the US Apollo program, six crewed missions landed on the Moon starting with Apollo 11 in 1969, leaving a like number ...

After delivering samples to Earth, the spacecraft will use our planet for a gravitational slingshot maneuver and set it on a course for main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS. The sample phase is ...