While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

Discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on April 5 ... A timelapse taken by the NASA/ESA ...

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

Credit: Don Pettit / NASA Comets are enormous balls of ice, dust, and rock that formed in the outer solar system, left over from the early days of planet formation about 4.6 billion years ago.

Are we extraterrestrial? Something was recently discovered by NASA on a near-Earth asteroid. They are Organic Molecules On ...

So, these are all changes that astronomers will look for each time comets come close to the Sun. And in some cases, orbital changes in a small solar system object can be used by astronomers to ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7 ... asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...