NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, astronomers have discovered icy exocomet belts circling 74 different alien planetary systems.

NASA shares images of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) near the sun and stunning photos from Jupiter and Mars missions.

NASA estimates there are billions of comets orbiting the Sun in the Kuiper Belt - a region of the solar system home to Pluto - and the more distant Oort Cloud.

Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.

In our own Solar System, comet belts are bands of comets and other objects that orbit the Sun. The Kuiper Belt is one such band, orbiting the Sun beyond the reach of Neptune. Formed from the remnants ...

Astrophysicists led by a team from Trinity College Dublin have—for the first time—imaged a large number of exocomet belts around nearby stars, and the tiny pebbles within them. The crystal ...